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3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?

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Re: 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?

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Post by pmontra »

djur wrote: post #95
nailer wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jackhammering street concerns and installing rubber bits with a texture that said to help the blind.

Could you provide a link? I've never seen rubber bits added to a sidewalk before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_paving

Re: 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?

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Post by xbryanx »

It's important to remind developers and clients in the United States that some aspects of web accessibility are required by federal law:

http://www.ada.gov/

Does the ADA apply to the web? Yes. This has been supported in court, when the National Federation of the Blind successfully sued Target over their e-commerce site:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_the_Bli...

The ADA is a great example of important legislation that protects the rights of a minority group that is regularly ignored by the market.

Re: 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?

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Post by DanBC »

leorocky wrote: post #44
joblessjunkie wrote: post #32

I have poor vision. This website uses a herd-to-read font and disables pinch-to-zoom (an essential feature) on my iPad.

This website is even difficult to read on a regular desktop browser (too wide, downvoted comments increasingly impossible to read causing eye strain). I recommend using your own content script with Chrome. This may not help on your iPad but on Android you can use Firefox with your own userscript. It's the only way I can tolerate it. It would probably take a competent someone a few hours to fix the readability issues…

Hard to read downvoted comments is a feature not a usability bug.

Down voted comments are supposed to be hard for everyone to read.

Re: 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?

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Post by mwcampbell »

hengheng wrote: post #78
jerf wrote: post #21

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Yes. Off the top of my head, I know of at least four different types of color blindness (from red-green all the way down to total monochromatic vision), total blindness, significant visual impairment (listed separately from blindness due to different accommodations), deafness, significant motor impairment making navigation difficult, and dyslexia (which there are ways of accommodating). Thinking about what it takes t…

Remember these people are cooperating with you. They are living with their disabilities full-time, and they might have found some remarkably clever ways to get along with it. I've seen blind people with iPhones (I have no idea), and a kid who used his wheelchair as a tractor to pull machinery around his parents' farm. You can work with these people, they're smart. Whether you make your site fully screen-reader compat…

> I've seen blind people with iPhones (I have no idea)

Video demonstrating how blind people use iOS devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQWyp13beE

Re: 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?

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Post by sp332 »

pmontra wrote: post #103
claudius wrote: post #86

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Hm, I’d be happy with some max-width:50em or so on the actual text. Now if only Firefox had a built-in way to apply custom user stylesheets to websites…

It's not built-in but the Stylish extension does that.

Claudius is being sarcastic. http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserContent.css
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