Hey there Marvin, When you first posted for suggestions for your site I did think that the subject of the blind computer user was apt, but I was reluctant to suggest it as you may of been reluctant to follow this path, concerned you may get pigeonholed. But as you have now indeed settled on the subject here is my suggestion.
Rather than a portal for web designers et al to services, information etc. might I suggest an education site for non-web geeks. There maybe site like this that exist, but most of the stuff I know of is either technical or hosted on web industry sites. Of course if I view information on the subject within that context it's not surprising. Rather what I was thinking was, describing and drawing upon your experience creating a site that illustrates to the lay person just what the experience of browsing the web without perfect eyesight is like. Now I accept that it's not likely the lay person will intentionally look for such a site or even stumble across it generally browsing. But for those of us in the WSG group trying to explain and convince website owners the merit of incorporating accessibility features and rather than referring to and citing those previously mentioned sites, to refer to a site that they understand is describing real experience... Such a site I would suggest could include recordings of sample passages read by your Windows Eyes software, and even a comparison of site; the good and the bad. One idea that came to mind might be to have a page that is completely dark, but as the user mouses over a kind of peek-a-boo magnify glass reveals the text underneath, attempting to depict what it would be like having to 'discover' the page bit by bit as opposed to a visual glance. Hope that is the sort of thing you were looking for and all the very best with the project. Kind regards, John Unsworth ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
