I read the Ethical Blogger- Web 2.0 Accessibility and Disability posted by Dante Torgersen Wow, I was not aware how we sill are so ignorant about the need of accessibility in the age of technology for people with disabilities. In this blog it points out the how the programming technique that is used to create dynamic and interactive web applications such as Java, continually change or update text which makes it difficult for screen readers to interpret websites for visually impaired Internet users. Hello?
I read The future of web accessibility posted by Amanda Thiis article discussed YouTube being one of the websites as being difficult to use due to user generated content, just as Flickr and Blogger. Can the website owners provide a mechanism to ensure this content is produced accessibly?
This article by Accessities.org discusses how social networking sites are not user friendly for people with disabilties. Here is the list of issues.
No accessibility page.
A lack of skip links and poor support for keyboard navigators generally.
Navigational graphics that lacked alternative text attributes.
Poor link text.
Poor typography.
No alternatives for site facilities that relied upon JavaScript.
Web 2.0 Accessibility and Disability posted by Dante Torgersen
Wow, I was not aware how we sill are so ignorant about the need of accessibility in the age of technology for people with disabilities. In this blog it points out the how the programming technique that is used to create dynamic and interactive web applications such as Java, continually change or update text which makes it difficult for screen readers to interpret websites for visually impaired Internet users. Hello?
Thiis article discussed YouTube being one of the websites as being difficult to use due to user generated content, just as Flickr and Blogger. Can the website owners provide a mechanism to ensure this content is produced accessibly?