GRAPHICS AND FRAMES

FRAMES AND GRAPHICS. If you can see them, they are pretty ... and pretty much the same. To the SIGHTED they are TERRIFIC. With LOW VISION they are a STRAIN. For the BLIND, they CONFOUND our speech program, to drive us both INSANE.

Those of us with less- than- perfect sight are a growing population. It's no exaggeration. Failing eyesight, given time to age, you too will join our generation. Together we are destined to all become members of the ELDER NATION.

Were we to meet, upon the street today. Would you block our way? If we knock upon your door, would you send us all away? We too would like to communicate and participate. Person- to- person, around the world, and all across the nation.

In this day and age, everyone is a SAGE. In their mind, and on their own HOME PAGE. Everyone has their role- to- play. Everyone has something- to- say. Everyone is artistic and anyone is a critic.

ALWAYS A POINT- OF- VIEW.
WE HAVE ONE TOO.

When you have a story to tell, we would like to hear it too. If you have something to sell, we would like to buy from you. When you have information to share, we would like to share that too.

UNIVERSAL ACCESS IS OUR QUEST.

Our problem seeks a solution that is mutual. It's not that we are against it. We won't stop the revolution. Not that we won't benefit from the evolution. So here is what we want to say, while Web Pages become Multi- Media and Graphically- Beauty- Full.

Among the Disabled is a very special population of the Computer Enabled. Who are experiencing a new, and very different, relationship between Man- And- Machine. These are the computer Enhanced, the computer Assisted, the computer Adapted, and the computer Dependent.

AFFORD-ABILITY AND TECHNOLOGY.

Many are being left behind. Up- grades they can not afford to pay. Adaptive Computer Systems can cost thousands, and upgrades cost hundreds. Consumerism's Corporate Market Game they can't afford to play. Disability usually restricts both physically, as well as income and ability- to- pay.

WEB SITE GRAPHICS
AND DISABILITY ACCESS.

The very Graphics and Scrips, ones much adored and adorn, can be both a BLESSING and a BOMB. TERMINATE speech programs. SCRAMBLE screens. CRIPPLE controls. While some just HIDE the text, buttons, and links; or PLAY- TAKE- AWAY. Where CRASHES deliver us from CHAOS, as JAVA DEATH restores the CALM.

These "ACCESS CONFLICTS" are the result of two advancing technologies. Computers and Adaptive Application Technology changes annually; and runs 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 the Disabled. Clearly another approach, by you and me, is needed.

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, Instructer, 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

ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SOFTWARE PROJECT - Expiramental Web Site Adaptive Java Automated Home Page: This is an Exparimental Site contains: Browser Text Font Size Adjustable for Low- To- No Vision Users, Framed Auto Text Scroll for Limited Input Users, Screen Text And Background Color Control for Low Vision Users, No Frames Option for Low Vision and Screen Text Readers,
ACSP Adaptive Site Guide:
Featuring Wildman Tim's Custom Java Scripts:
[Low- To -No Vision]
http://www.wildmantim.com/asg/index.html

ACSP Adaptive Site Guide Introduction
[NO FRAMES]
http://207.92.100.226/asg/findex.html

SuperAdaptoid 97