[vox] Article: "Upgrading 'Accessible' to 'Fully Accessible'"
Bill Kendrick
nbs at sonic.net
Thu Jun 17 13:49:48 PDT 2010
Semi off-topic, but hopefully interesting to many out here, a post on
the blog for The Open Library (run by the Internet Archive):
Upgrading 'Accessible' to 'Fully Accessible'
http://blog.openlibrary.org/2010/06/09/upgrading-accessible-to-fully-accessible/
By Lance Arthur, June 9, 2010
"As a front-end coder and visual designer, I've often made
assumptions about visitors to websites I'm designing or coding, but
have rarely taken the time to consider those who can't see the pages
until now. How do you navigate without vision? How can we convey the
same kind of visual codes about the page's contents (headlines,
colors, white space, keylines, and so on) to blind and visually
impaired visitors?"
It goes on to talk about some of the issues that they came across
while watching some blind and visually impaired people try to use
the site for the first time.
Enjoy,
--
-bill!
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