I’m a fan of user interface design, and all the psychology behind it. I love the art/science of making things easier to use and understanding the differences between how people use a site, and how the designers thought people would use a site.
Accessibility is a big part of that. Can someone who can only see high contrast images see your site? Or can they at least re-style your page easily to make it high contrast? Can someone using a screen reader to speak the text on a page get all of your content?
I bow to the king of accessibility, though. The West Midlands Fire Service has thought of everything.
Move your mouse over the woman in the picture.
Yes, she actually signs the text that’s beside her.
It’s a great day when even deaf people can read the internet.
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Umm,if you understand sign-language you can probably read…
It’s a great day when even deaf people can read the internet.
I wasn’t sure if that was serious or sarcastic? Obviously a deaf person can see/read the text on the screen but as English is actually a second language to many of them, a deaf person would likely greatly be benefitted by the signing lady as the text on some pages could be beyond their reading level in that new language. Does that make sense? hmmm. I hope so. Anyway, it is pretty cool that you computer people know what to do with these boxes of stuff sitting on our desks. I still have to beg for codes to ‘get this button’ and things like that. But boy am I quick with a word document (sad…..really sad)
Sigh.
I guess need a flashing *SARCASM* graphic or something.
Okay, I’m not trying to be naive, but truthfully American Sign Language is very different from written English, so it is possible for a deaf person to struggle with some of the specifics of the text on a website and the signer would be really helpful. (or do you just think I’m extremely lame now
) All I know is my deaf friend/teacher would rather discuss details about my having him teach our homeschool group in person rather than by email because then “we both understand each other better”…. I figured the common typed English would be easier, but clearly not for him.
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