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Building Accessible Website -
04-30-2004
, 10:10 AM
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What's the best browser to test for website accessibility? Is there a free screen reader I can use to test how my site reads best? |
accessible design?
-Karl
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What's the best browser to test for website accessibility? |
to simulate text-only and other situations.
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Mark.
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Tools wrote: What's the best browser to test for website accessibility? [snip] Is there a free screen reader I can use to test how my site reads best? IIRC, there's IBM HPR, which is available on a trial basis. 30 days, I think. |
http://www-306.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/hpr.html
There are a couple of other useful techniques. One is simply to "save as
text". This at least shows how the content linearises, and reveals some things
to avoid. Another is to use Opera in "small screen mode", because that too
linearises, and you find out just hard it can be to navigate round complex
pages.
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Barry Pearson
http://www.Barry.Pearson.name/photography/
http://www.BirdsAndAnimals.info/
http://www.ChildSupportAnalysis.co.uk/
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Tools wrote: What's the best browser to test for website accessibility? Lynx is a good choice. http://www.lynx.browser.org/ Is there a free screen reader I can use to test how my site reads best? IIRC, there's IBM HPR, which is available on a trial basis. 30 days, I think. |
function for a total 30 minutes between reboots.
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"Tools" <mbrocklehurst (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:e571bea.0404300610.5876a648 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com... What's the best browser to test for website accessibility? Is there a free screen reader I can use to test how my site reads best? Are blind people the only ones who have a physical impairment that requires accessible design? |
to be a concern. There are users who are unable to use a keyboard, but for
them to use a computer *at all* requires that they have some tool, whether
hardware- or software-based or both, that provides for character entry to
applications, so the issue from the perspective of web use is whether the
user agent itself recognizes input from the assistive technology. If it
does, then the mechanism by which the character input was introduced is
transparent to the web page.
That leaves as the primary audiences of concern:
1. Those who will access your site visually, but can't read small or even
"normal" text sizes. No fixed fonts should be used, and flexible page
layouts are best for accommodating content when the size of the type the
user will select is unknown.
2. Those who will access your site visually, but can't discern colors. Color
should never be the sole visual means of conveying information.
3. Those who can't use a mouse or other pointing device. A site should be
entirely usable by keyboard alone.
4. Those who are susceptible to seizure if blinking text or graphics are
used. Simply put, avoid blinking.
General usability principles are particularly important for people with
special requirements.
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What's the best browser to test for website accessibility? Is there a free screen reader I can use to test how my site reads best? |
browser...there are some good suggestions so far...further things to
ponder
colour blindness...how good is the contrast so that colour blind users can
still use the site effectively
RSI, physical disabilities...how much scrolling and clicking does it take
to get around the site
in general you need to mentally run through the likely problems and look
at the site in the light of them...it's actually best if you can integrate
this into the basic design process rather than check afterwards...a lot of
accessibility/usability concerns dictate basic choices about how the
design should be...it's easy to tackle them right at the beginning of
creating the design, it can be hard work done later
some useful links
<http://diveintoaccessibility.org/>
<http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/default.htm>
<http://www.uie.com/>
<http://www.useit.com/>
<http://www.colormatters.com/optics.html>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/>
<http://www.isolani.co.uk/articles/accessibility.html>
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eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"
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Tools mbrocklehurst (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote: What's the best browser to test for website accessibility? [snip] colour blindness...how good is the contrast so that colour blind users can still use the site effectively [snip] |
Very good point. Here is a colour contrast analyser:
http://www.juicystudio.com/services/colourcontrast.asp
Here is a way of checking what colour-blind people see:
http://www.vischeck.com/
http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php
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Barry Pearson
http://www.Barry.Pearson.name/photography/
http://www.BirdsAndAnimals.info/
http://www.ChildSupportAnalysis.co.uk/
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[snip] colour blindness...how good is the contrast so that colour blind users can still use the site effectively [snip] Here is a way of checking what colour-blind people see: http://www.vischeck.com/ http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php |
when I take a look at the examples, some of them look
the same to me(but then again, I'm partly colorblind ;-)
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Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/
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