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Ask an Expert About Web Site Accessibility

Posted by Roblimo on from the giving-everybody-a-chance-to-play dept.

Joe Clark is an expert on handicapped accesibility for movies, TV, the WWW, and other media. The launch party for his new book, Building Accessible Websites , is Dec. 3, which is also the International Day of Disabled Persons, so this a perfect time to ask questions about how to make a Web site -- or a TV show or movie -- accessible. As usual, we'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Joe, and run his answers verbatim when we get them back.

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  1. Re:Accessible Slashdot? by Xaoswolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm guessing that the typo's on slashdot lead to some interesting stuff comming out of your speakers if you use any of those text to speach programs.

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    Xaotik Designs
  2. Yuck... by pubjames · · Score: 5, Funny

    The cover of this guy's Web Site Accessibility book is bizzarely reminiscent of that goatsx guy. Ugh.

    http://joeclark.org/book/images/bawcover25.jpg

  3. Re:How far should it go? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    Talking about Flash, a first step would be to provide a courtesy "Skip intro" link

    Most times, if I don't see a "skip intro" link when some stupid fluff starts fading in from black, I make my own: the "back arrow". On to the next site.

  4. Re:How far should it go? by Alien+Being · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Macromedia Flash has integrated many accessibility features..."

    Ball Street Journal:

    Macromedia has won patents on a new technlogy which enables wider accessibility to information on websites.

    Chief technology officer, Hassan ben Sober, said "By eliminating unnecessary multimedia content and presenting the most relevent facts in 'FlashText tm' we can help the web realize its full potential"