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I’m a full visually-able user and I love looking at websites. I know though, that not everyone experiences websites in the same way. Browsing websites at different screen sizes is a hot topic at the moment, but lets not forget that it’s not just mobile users that experience websites differently, blind users experience them in a way you might not even realise. So I started using a screen reader to see (I suppose I should say “experience”) how a blind user navigates a website. In the country of the blind, the Lynx-compliant site is king.
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"I think we’ve got a moral obligation however to help blind users navigate the web"
That's an interesting comment - but the reality is that this isn't just a moral obligation, in some countries this is also a legal obligation. Here, in the UK, this is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act.
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Yes, but as far as I'm aware nobody has yet been prosecuted for failing to comply with this on a website.
I've tried arguing for this at a couple of previous employers, but their attitude is its not worth the hassle as there's little chance of prosecution.
Morally objectionable, but seems to be standard business practice.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Morally objectionable, but seems to be standard business practice.
Indeed, but the RNIB is beginning to make moves on this here in the UK.
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I'm really glad to hear that.
Interestingly, good accessible web design often overlaps with good web design anyway - not only do you improve accessibility, but as a side effect your site is easier to search, more adaptive to browser differences, ...
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