So *that's* how you do that! I did wonder, as I've been updating my site, and wanted to see what it was like for those poor unfortunate folks afflicted with that terrible disease, sight, grin.
Cheers, Simon----- Original Message ----- From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:35 PM Subject: Re: Team Excellence Award Winner
which except for rare occasions is not practical Marlon, since we live in a sighted world, and the majority of folks that we are going to need to deal with are sighted, I'm sorry that you have no experience in the visual view of things, this is one area where I have an advantage.but... you can't avoid the visual world, it's out there, it's the majority, and so you might as well learn the tricks for dealing with it, use the standards and templates when and where you can, and do your best to adapt.the best description for trying to convey sight to a person that has never had it, was spoken by a blind dude that never had sight in his life,its the description I use now a days, since I have found myself often trying to describe visual aspects to those who have never had site.one thing you should do if you haven't, go to a web site, keep yourself at the top of the page, and turn on the invisible cursor and go up and down the page to see what it actually looks like, such as, the that that instead of the vertical column that jaws presents us with, that its actually more like a message written in Braille, including the navigation links which run from left to right across the page, not in the vertical column that is presented to us.take care, and good luck, inthane. For Blind Programming assistance, Information, Useful Programs, and Links to Jamal Mazrui's Text tutorial packages and Applications, visit me at:http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com. to be able to view a simple programming project in several programming languages, visit the Fruit basket demo site at:http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:01 AM Subject: Re: Team Excellence Award WinnerHello folks, Well I have never seen ... so I have no a ... let's call it ... visual standards so, although I can technically do it very well ... I can not plan, like imagine, build ... a nice visual interface, because I don't know what it is expected. A quick example is I beleaved gfirmly that the windows explorer put the folder treeview in the top and the listview below it, and I couldn't beleave when a guy tould me naturally that the treeview was in the left and the listview was in the right!!!! Similarly, because of the top down aproach most part of screen readers use to present web content, I have dificulties to imagine hwat exactly sighted people expect to see in a webpage or something like this. I can plan the components of the interface, but deciding * and putting * them in the more "apropriate" place or planning what would happen if one changes their screen resolution or diicovering by teory how browsers would react to it without testing is something very different. If I had been sighted (and lost my sight after the modern look and feel's I perhaps would be totally able to build interfaces based on the standards of what should be common to folks, but the only thing I can do for now is build an interface based on someone's specifications. And even then I will spend eforts trying to build something which belongs to a group of situations that I can't imagine very well ... and, again, I wouldn't be able to test my own work, which seen something pretty nasty to any [programmer I know of ... now the point is: For sure many blind folks can do gui's, but they will feel more confortable and be more productive if they're doing something which has not a visual result as its goal ... which should be perfectly logical. Thanks Marlon 2007/11/28, jaffar <jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:Hi Jim. Excellent news. Congrats Jeff. Just shows what, if you all will forgive the pun, application will do for one, not to mention hard work anddetermination, and the willingness to try. Cheers! ----- Original Message ----- From: <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:42 PM Subject: Team Excellence Award Winner > > Hi All,> Where I consult, one of our fellow listers was on a team who won a > very > prestigious award. The team developed a highly visible web > application. > Jeff Fidler designed and coded the GUI interface for the site using > HTML, > CSS and Javascript. He used Section 508 and W3C techniques and the > sighted> people in the company rave about it. >> I write this to urge anyone who thinks that someone who is blind > cannot> design Web interfaces well to keep on trying. You can do it. > > Jim > > James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc., > james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810 >> "Never doubt that a thoughtful group of committed citizens can change > the> world. 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