LSW Posted December 21, 2008 Report Share Posted December 21, 2008 It is my hope to find and place articles here that will give you an idea of how those with disabilities "see" and use the web site. So here is the first and I hope to have more to follow. Surfing Blind by Max Robinson (on visual Impairment) Staying Focused By Stephanie May (on Text - to - Speech) Multiple Technologies Clear Obstacles By Jonathan Avila (on being legally blind, while having usable vision) A Christmas tale about accessible shopping by L?onie Watson is Nomensa's Head of Accessibility and visually impaired. WebAIM offers an article called "Introduction to Web Accessibility " that includes two videos where people with disabilities are interviewed on camera. The first, "Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind," is a bit long and about accessibility in general. The second, "Experiences of Students with Disabilities," is shorter and exclusively interviews. Videos AssistiveWare offers videos of some of the most extreme uses of assistive technologies. Mike, who suffers spinal muscular atrophy plays many video games including first person shooters using a Mac. A woman with ALS controlling her computer with a switch taped to her cheek. A woman with cerebral palsy who uses her computer to do graphic design work. These videos are well worth watching. Blind Computing - How do we do it? - Cathy Anne, Created a YouTube Video to show how Screen Readers work. 6 min. Web Accessibility - through the "eyes" of a screen reader - YouTube video highlighting the importance of Skip Links descriptive links rather than "click here". 3 min. - YouTube video of a brief by Jeff Bingham of Washington Sate University. This is technically a brief to Google employees about a project for a faux screen reader they have developed. It is long, but the beginning at least has some very good info and statistics for the first half. If these people can do these things... imagine what they can do with a simple accessible web site. After seeing these... I really do not want to here developers saying that accessibility is to hard and not enough people benefit from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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