Screen Reader Access

CONGRADULATIONS
Great Web Site

YOUR WEB PAGE IS A KNOCKOUT
It Stopped My Screen Reader Dead.

The very Graphics and Scrips, that go to make a web site "cool". Are much adored and adorn web site design as a tool. That leaves my Screen Reader "cold"; [un - cool].

For the Blind graphics and scripts can be both Barrier and Bomb. Some just terminate speech programs. Scramble screens. Cripple controls. While others just Hide the text, buttons, and links; or Play -Take- Away. Where Crashes deliver us from Chaos, as only JAVA Death restores the Calm.

These "Access Conflicts" are the result of two advancing technologies. While computers and Adaptive Technology change annually. They "run behind" Web Site Language Technology which sometimes advances monthly.

To see this clearly add the advancement -of- technologies, to the Market Forces of industry, then the "Physical Factors" of disability, and the "Human Factors" of reality. Clearly another approach, by you and me, is needed. I wish I could tell you how directly. But frankly, without the screen reader, I just can't see.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
ON YOUR OWN WEB PAGE.

This is really nothing special. It only takes some tips. Label your graphics. Limit tags and scrips. Isolate your frames. Indicate the options. Declare and dedicate a page. It's practical, more than technical.

Computing with a disability is already tough enough. You can make the change, a little bit each day. You can make it happen and really lead- the- way. All we are asking, is only fair play ... and End The Blind -Man's- Bluff. Should you find this interesting, we suggest the following for reading:

START HERE WITH YAHOO:

Computers and Internet:
World Wide Web:
Page Design and Layout:
Accessibility
See: Yahoo Search Results.

Computers and Internet:
Information and Documentation:
Data Formats: HTML
See: Yahoo Search Results.

REFERENCES AND RESOURCES:

Giving Blind People Access to Graphics.
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~kurze/publications/se_95/swerg95.htm

Arts Wire - On-Line Access
Instructions for Users with Disabilities:
NCAM - National Center for Accessible Media.
New York Foundation for the Arts.
http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/access.html

Speech Friendly Web Sites Award - Ribbon Sites.
http://www.wwwebit.com/magical-mist/home.htm

Accessible Web Site Guidelines - Index:
http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/index.html

Accessible Web Page Design.
http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled/web-desi.htm

DO-IT HTML - Guidelines:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~doit/Other/design.html

Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines:
http://trace.wisc.edu/text/guidelns/htmlgide/htmlgide.htm

Gilbert Healton's Home Page Resource Listings.
Author, Instructor, Programmer, User Of HTML
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/

Healton's "No Fluff Description Of Good HTML".
http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/./nofhtml.html

Accessibility And VRML.
http://www.hprc.utoronto.ca:80/AdTech/rd/vrml/

Java Accessibility Program.
http://trace.wisc.edu:80/world/java/java.htm

SPEECH ACCESS FOR ALL
Text By Superadaptoid

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