At 8:22 AM -0500 2004-07-06, Bohnenkamp, Daniel J wrote:
How do you make Mailman web pages accessible to the blind people
Well, you can start with the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative pages, starting at <http://www.w3c.org/WAI/>.
Going to the "Quick Tips" page at <http://www.w3c.org/WAI/References/QuickTips/>, you will note that most items have to do with things related to graphics and multimedia. However, Mailman doesn't really make use of much graphics, and what little it does use graphics for is primarily for some minimal decoration. Mailman doesn't use scripts, applets, or plug-ins, nor does it use frames, tables, graphs, or charts. About the only relevant tips are the ones regarding hypertext links (which I believe we're already conformant with), and page organization (which I think we do pretty good at, although I don't think we use CSS).
You can also check the FAQs that they have.
In my own experience, most visually challenged people use text-mode browsers, such as "lynx" or "links", or programs that operate in a similar fashion (perhaps Netscape on a 24" monitor with 96 point type and most advanced features turned off, like auto-loading graphics, javascript, java, etc...). The output from these text-mode browsers may be fed into text-to-speech synthesizers.
If you want to get a good idea of how your website looks to a visually challenged person, try using the same methods.
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