[WG: Accessibility] Article about how the blind "see" the web from Gizmodo

[Mary Stores]

Mike and all,

Well, there definitely is a lag between new and emerging technologies 
and screen reader programmers trying to catch up. Another thing they 
got right is that most people who are blind do use the Mobile Facebook 
site, However, they also go to the regular site with Firefox because 
for some reason, IE and the regular FB site don't play as well 
together. The article covered the Mobile site, but not very much about 
Firefox at all. It talked about Apple's accessibility efforts, but not 
much about Firefox that I read. I wish they would have covered Firefox 
in the article.

I think that the one most important thing the article lacked was 
audience involvement. There was no message about how designing web 
sites accessibly benefits everyone, not just blind people. Also, there 
are other people with other types of disabilities that have trouble 
accessing the web or reading a book.

Still, I am glad that the author made the effort and wrote the article. 
It was very objectively written, covering both sides of the 
accessibility story. It really is good to know that objective reporting 
still exists today. :)

Mary


. Quoting Michael S Elledge <elledge at msu.edu>:

> Hi Mary and Eli--
>
> What things do you think the article got right, and what do you think
> they missed the mark on? And is there anything you wished they had
> addressed, but didn't?
>
> Others please feel free to add your comments--this can be a great
> teaching moment!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike
>
> Mary Stores wrote:
>> Thanks for sharing, Eli! Ah, the perpetual myth of reading line by
>> line... and I sort of hope that they get to understand that their
>> web site, full of ten million level 1 headings, could really use a
>> little of that W3C Compliance...but it isn't the worst I've ever
>> seen either. Well, at least they wrote something.
>>
>> Mary
>>
>> Quoting Eli Cochran <eli at media.berkeley.edu>:
>>
>>
>>> My favorite gadget blog, Gizmodo, has a pretty good article on how
>>> the blind "see" the web.
>>>
>>> http://gizmodo.com/5620079/giz-explains-how-blind-people-see-the-internet
>>>
>>> Some of the comments are quite sadly sad and miss the point.
>>>
>>> - Eli
>>>
>>> . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .   .    .      .         .              .
>>>                    .
>>>
>>> Eli Cochran
>>> manager of user experience
>>> user interaction developer
>>> ETS, UC Berkeley
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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