On 1/2/2016 5:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
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My blind friend with his screen reader seems to have much less trouble with
messy HTML than I (partially sighted) do. His screen reader just reads it to
him. I stare at the mess of "pretty" colours and fancy writing, with
blotches and swirls everywhere and don't know where to begin.
I browse with SeaMonkey 2.26.1 under WinXP. For my needs and
usage pattern I
have a partial solution to similar problems:
1. I routinely surf with JavaScript disabled. I have a separate
profile for
visiting the very few sites for which JavaScript provides
content I know
I want. This does have the side affect that some sights fail
silently by
showing me a blank screen. On the whole those sites have
other problems.
Competent sites are coded to display a message such as
"JavaScript must be
enabled to enjoy this site." They are much more likely to get
my business.
Also,their design is generally more competently done.
2. I set my profile to ignore background images and sites choice
of colors. This
was prompted by sites with poor contrast of foreground text
with the background.
I also force underlining of all links and my choice of colors
for visited and
unvisited links. All other text is black on white. The only
downside has been
things like "search boxes" can be harder to spot.
3. SeaMonkey allows specifying minimum font size in pixels. Some
sloppy sites
are careless about absolute screen position of graphics and
how text flows
around objects.
A side question to Steve, "Is this post screen reader friendly?"
