At 07:39 AM 11/30/00 -0600, David Douthitt wrote:
...
>This thread was started because I didn't think the LEAF community did
>not want to shut out a large and growing segment of the American
>population from using the LEAF site. This community *HAS TO* use
>Lynx or other browsers that work similarly.
>
>This thread is about creating web pages that are usable by blind
>people and others.
You've only discussed issues relating to blind people, so I wonder if you
could expand a bit on the "others".
The main other group I see discussed in usability articles and such is
people with impaired motor skills who use alternate pointing devices and
typing devices (like mouth sticks). Lynx doesn't seem particularly
beneficial to them ... I'd guess that they gain more than they lose from a
well-designed GUI ... but what GUI issues do they face that we should think
about? (For example, one alternate pointing device is something that tracks
eye movement. Does a GUI make use of this easier or harder?)
There are the deaf too, of course, who will become more important to the
design debate as sound itself becomes more important to design, but that's
not yet, at least not for a development site like LEAF.
Related to that ... since you raised this question ... how usable is
Sourceforge itself by various disabled groups? Having an access-friendly
home page for LEAF does seem to me like a good thing, but the meat is in
places like the download page and the documentation page, which are
(currently, at least) embedded in the Sourceforge structure.
Finally, we seem to be thinking about dsabled *users* of LEAF and the LEAF
site. What issues are there with respect to a disabled *developer* wanting
to participate in LEAF?
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