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So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

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Re: So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

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Post by Tipzntrix »

"Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background."

Aah, your gray font used to write this is hard to read and I haven't been characterized for any of these.

Also, HN seems to make it hard for people with these impairments to read downvoted comments :P, though they do that to everyone. There should be an option to re-darken a downvoted comment temporarily.

Re: So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

#12

Post by antidoh »

mgkimsal wrote: post #6

"One of the newer groups under the accessibility umbrella, this group has become more vocal in the past few years. Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background." IMO, bro…

Firefox makes the binary choice straightforward: accept the site's styling, or use no styling: "View/Page Style/No Style". I find myself going to no style much more frequently these days, as cool UIs become fashionable but are still hard to get right, especially cross browser.

So what does someone do in between? Immerse themselves in hidden browser settings? Use greasemonkey?

Re: So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

#13

Post by sp332 »

Tipzntrix wrote: post #11

"Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background." Aah, your gray font used to write this is hard to read and I haven't been characterized for any of these. Also, HN seems t…

I just select it with my mouse, but I'm not sure how effective that is on a touch device.

Re: So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

#14

Post by antidoh »

Tipzntrix wrote: post #11

"Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background." Aah, your gray font used to write this is hard to read and I haven't been characterized for any of these. Also, HN seems t…

"Also, HN seems to make it hard for people with these impairments to read downvoted comments :P, though they do that to everyone. There should be an option to re-darken a downvoted comment temporarily."

As I mentioned in another response here, Firefox View/PageStyle/NoStyle is increasingly my response to the increasing number of cool but unreadable sites. That will solve your problem of not being able to read downvoted comments.

A quicker and more focused solution is just to drag across the downvoted comment, which shows up in high contrast reverse colors for me.

Re: So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

#15

Post by epascarello »

antidoh wrote: post #10
Adrock wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you say "we", I assume you mean the United States. There's already progress in that direction in other countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility#Legally_requi... It's already a de facto requirement for anyone selling software to the government. When I was a PM at Microsoft working on Visio, I was surprised and amazed at how much time and energy went into accessibility of all the Office product. I…

Please say more about that. I'm trying to think how a blind user could effectively use a visual design program or its output. Do you output text representation of diagrams? Does a blind user put the product to some use and purpose that's different from the average sighted user?

If the visual representation can be described with data, you give them the option to view that data. Images have a longdesc attribute for this http://webaim.org/techniques/images/longdesc

Not all visual applications can be made accessible.

Re: So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

#17

Post by therealkatie »

elliottcarlson wrote: post #16

I could be wrong - my apologies if I am - in the section about the hearing impaired, shouldn't it be "Deaf community" with a capital D?

It absolutely should be. This happens more than I'd care to admit, when someone else does final editing on your article :\ I'll contact the site owner.

Re: So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

#18

Post by arctangent »

marknutter wrote: post #2

Just like we have laws against discrimination based on disability and measures like handicap parking spots, does anyone envision a future where there's some sort of federal mandate that websites cater to the disabled?

UK government websites are required to achieve level "AA" WCAG compliance:

http://coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=131

Re: So, You Don’t Have Any Disabled Users?

#20

Post by neeee »

antidoh wrote: post #12
mgkimsal wrote: post #6

"One of the newer groups under the accessibility umbrella, this group has become more vocal in the past few years. Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background." IMO, bro…

Firefox makes the binary choice straightforward: accept the site's styling, or use no styling: "View/Page Style/No Style". I find myself going to no style much more frequently these days, as cool UIs become fashionable but are still hard to get right, especially cross browser. So what does someone do in between? Immerse themselves in hidden browser settings? Use greasemonkey?

Use stylish and user styles, which are just CSS with metadata.

http://userstyles.org/

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