Re: UKNM: Blind Blind Blind (was two launches and two funerals)

[chris]

At 10:22 08/11/99 -0000, you wrote:

>Speaking of user interfaces, did anyone see that...

>

>"The National Federation of the Blind filed a federal suit against AOL for

>making its service inaccessible to the

>blind. The suit claims AOL violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by

>failing to make its service compatible with programs designed to help blind

>people..."


*snip*


I used to get my students to check sites against Bobby.  Once, in a

particularly sadistic frame of mind, I waited until some students had

finished their sites, then got them to navigate them blind-fold, with only

a speech-browser parsing the HTML looking for text and ALT tags.  An

extreme experiment, but some of the students liked it, as they said it

completely changed their paradigm for creating site navigation.


Chris. 


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