Monday, October 03, 2005
Accessability and the impaired.
I, as most of us probably do, know quite a few people who are physically impaired in some way. I never gave it much thought, but without web accessability these people are missing out on the information super-highway. I know that the amount that each of these people use the internet varies from not at all, to quite a bit. The interesting thing is, I was talking with a blind guy about English. He said that he reads a lot of web pages and didn't understand a lot of the punctuation on these. I never really thougth before about blind people using the internet. I wonder how many web pages are out there that really support these devices.
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I wonder how many web pages are out there that really support these devices.
Wednesday we'll look at some at WIU and see how well they do stuff. I'm thinking of department-level sites, mostly, but also campus units like the library.
I am curious about how many webpages are accessible also. I think we don't think about a lot of issues that we probably should.
if i was blind i would sure want to have access to the web. good point.
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