On 6/15/07, Dana Tierney wrote: > > how would you know if your site was accessible to a screen reader? Short > of actually running it through? I always thought it was a matter of making > sure that images had text descriptions and that essential information was > not hidden in pictures
There is a ton more to it... you need to have tabindexes on all input fields, labels for all input fields (which is kindof interesting for those text boxes that have their description within the text, like "Type here to search" or whatnot), acronyms and abbreviations, color sensitivity (don't use some of those colors people are commonly color blind to for navigation or what not), contrast sensitivity... the list goes on and on. Gives me an appreciation for folks who produce really accessible sites. It's a lot of work, and some of it takes knowledge that most folks ain't going to have (to use "ain't", which really pisses off the wife. =]). After a quick google, it seems like there are some Open Source screen readers, but most are for Linux (surprise surprise ;)-- the windows ones were for the most part commercial (and probably better quality =P)... makes it kinda hard for the dude or chick off the street to actually run their stuff through a reader... and I bet they all very as to what they support, how, etc.. Should we still not be putting TITLE attributes on certain tags, since it messes up some readers? (for instance) I think we should be putting all the money people are individually putting into the idea of accessibility, into a sorta big group effort... perhaps that's sorta going on now-- for sure there's more going on than there ever was before. (I was sorta in the disabilities arena for a while, back in the day-- I <3 assistive tech! Man, when I think about it-- I'm pretty lame for not being more focused.) And the "good stuff" should be "free", IMHO. Hey, anyone got a sorta "real life" checklist of what they do to stress-test the accessibility of their sites? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:236748 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
