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- imakedesign
anyone know of any sites that deal with accessibilty for people with disabilities well.
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- fate0
heh
- adrian0
How about links to sites where actual disabled people bitch/praise web sites for accessibility?
I'd actually be very interested to know how many people are cut off from certain web sites, and why/how.
Also, does anybody think web designers should feel guilty about not making web sites more accessible? From my own experience, accessibilty has rarely if ever come up in any design or concepting discussion i've ever had. (Which means that I myself am guilty of ignoring the issue. Most of the stuff I do is multimedia visual stuff, but that's probably no excuse.)
There are ways even in Flash to make sites accessible to the blind, but these methods are often ignored or deliberately turned off or not tested in QA. (If somebody knows of a counter example, please share.)
Are there a lot of people out there pissed off at web designers because sites are inaccessible (not just because of bad design, but actually inaccesible to disabled people)? I really have no idea but it would be interesting to find out.
- jevad0
" Also, does anybody think web designers should feel guilty about not making web sites more accessible?"
No - but the clients we make websites *for* should....
- adrian0
I understand what you're saying, Jevad. But on the other hand, clients hire designers and developers as consultants for our expertise (or that's the idea, anyway).
I'm just wondering, honestly. I hardly ever set out to make anything accessible myself.
- fate0
depends what side of the fence you sit on with web design.
If you're more advertising side, hell no. Your whole profession is made of lies, guilt is of no object.
If you are about using the Internets as the medium it was always intended to be--a nexus of information that anyone and everyone can access--yes, you shouldn't even be able to sleep at night.
- jevad0
we are trying really hard to get our clients, a number of which are huge Fortune 100 companies, inline with current accessibility guidelines. Most have been quite receptive
- adrian0
i'm totally on the advertising side (as far as how i makes my monies goes).
but if i was blind i have a feeling that i'd be really pissed.
- fate0
I've actually had the desire lately to make a simple, functional css+xhtml site that is accesible. Kinda balance out all the bad I've been doing for the internet Flash-wise.
- adrian0
in any event, i think it'd be interesting to read the perspectives of people with disabilities, instead of just the regular usability gurus.
i gotta go, hope i can find this thread tomorrow.
- imakedesign0
thanks for the response, good to see this thread still up after i went to bed.
how can you design for the blind?? i really am at a loss
- jevad0
screen readers