[Gllug] Argos site

[Jonathan Dye]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Stewart [mailto:sms at lateral.net]
> Sent: 31 July 2002 13:33
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Argos site
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:15:53PM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:
> >
> > Not being a bigot, just wondering how a blind person would expect to
> > use a website anyway?
> 
> Steve, it's not all pretty pictures. I use the web for getting hold of
> APIs of the various Java libraries that I use, and do a lot of reading
> of news sites and blogs. All of those are accessible (in theory) to a
> blind person using a braille or screen reader.
> 
> I also know people who like to use screen readers to read a page to
> them while they do something else in another window. If there's
> something interesting in the page, they can swap back to the browser
> and properly examine it.

That's a good idea, are there any free screen readers?

> Bad web design stops people using the web. Easy as that.

Has anyone got any links to guides on accessability for web pages?  I've
knocked up a few sites in my time and have made sure that they are always
standards complient and don't rely on Javascript (althought some have used
it to enhance).  I also try make sure I have added ALT attributes to IMG
tags.

> Cheers,
> 
> Simon

JD

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