not me. I am lost in the land of video + blackboard at the moment. And IE7 still doesn not work. Also we will have to deal with an institution-wide template which I suspect is a problem. So for the moment I am a spectator but yes, I am very interested. We *will* need to explore all this.
On 6/16/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/15/07, Dana Tierney wrote: > > > > how would you know if your site was accessible to a screen reader? Short > > of actually running it through? I always thought it was a matter of making > > sure that images had text descriptions and that essential information was > > not hidden in pictures > > > There is a ton more to it... you need to have tabindexes on all input > fields, > labels for all input fields (which is kindof interesting for those text > boxes > that have their description within the text, like "Type here to search" or > whatnot), acronyms and abbreviations, color sensitivity (don't use some > of those colors people are commonly color blind to for navigation or what > not), contrast sensitivity... the list goes on and on. Gives me an > appreciation > for folks who produce really accessible sites. It's a lot of work, and some > of it takes knowledge that most folks ain't going to have (to use "ain't", > which > really pisses off the wife. =]). > > After a quick google, it seems like there are some Open Source screen > readers, > but most are for Linux (surprise surprise ;)-- the windows ones were for the > most part commercial (and probably better quality =P)... makes it kinda hard > for the dude or chick off the street to actually run their stuff through a > reader... > and I bet they all very as to what they support, how, etc.. Should we still > not > be putting TITLE attributes on certain tags, since it messes up some > readers? > (for instance) > > I think we should be putting all the money people are individually putting > into > the idea of accessibility, into a sorta big group effort... perhaps that's > sorta > going on now-- for sure there's more going on than there ever was before. > (I was sorta in the disabilities arena for a while, back in the day-- I <3 > assistive > tech! Man, when I think about it-- I'm pretty lame for not being more > focused.) > > And the "good stuff" should be "free", IMHO. > > Hey, anyone got a sorta "real life" checklist of what they do to stress-test > the > accessibility of their sites? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:236750 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
