Re: designing a website suitable for Jaws users
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:31:41 -0700
Hello Renette,
Focus on compatibility with assistive technology in general, not JAWS
specifically. In fact, System Access to Go at http://www.satogo.com is
totally free and would probably represent an excellent way to freely test
accessibility issues. There's also NVDA at http://www.nvda-project.org for
this purpose. NVDA is totally open source as well.
As far as web accessibility, there's always the Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI):
http://www.w3.org/wai
Please visit http://BlindWebAccess.com and sign the petition asking Yahoo!
to make their CAPTCHA accessible!
Darrell Shandrow - Accessibility Evangelist
Information should be accessible to us without need of translation by
another person.
Blind Access Journal blog and podcast: http://www.blindaccessjournal.com
Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i
----- Original Message -----
From: "Renette Bloem" <renette@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "jaws mailing list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:20 AM
Subject: designing a website suitable for Jaws users
Hi Everybody
I was approached by somebody who offered to improve a website dealing with
disabled cycling.
Some of the users will of course be blind, because tandem cycling is part of
disabled cycling.
My question:
This person is a computer programmer, but knows nothing of how blind people
access the computer environment.
Are there any websites that he can visit to find helpful information how to
design a website to work well with Jaws and screenreaders in general?
He came across "webbIe" - which seems to be a program helping people to
design websites for visually impaired people. Is he on the right track?
Thanks so much.
Renette
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