Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web?

dratcw writes "An article was posted this week to ComputerWorld, detailing the frustrations faced by blind people struggling to use the Web. The piece shows how little progress has been made and the inadequacy of solutions such as Microsoft's Narrator screen reader. While the article generated many positive comments, one reader said the disabled should 'get a grip' and maintained they 'have no more right to demand that others provide for their needs than I, as a diabetic, have a right to demand that sugar no longer be used.' Should Web sites and software makers do more, or does the reality of today's economics dictate that the blind/disabled will continue to struggle and learn to live with it?"

Comments

Re:Shitty web design is not a "blind" problem

[Foofoobar]

Nobody got fired for buying IBM^WMicrosoft" is very much in effect.

I know plenty of people who got fired for buying Microsoft; is it cross platform? can it easily scale without throwing more hardware at it? is it secure? is it stable? These are all reasons why the original addage of why you don't get fired for buying IBM still stands... not so for Microsoft.

But hey... you can play some great games on it. Maybe the addage should be 'Nobody's ADD 15 yr old ever threw a temper tantrum for buying Microsoft'.

Porn for the Blind!

[Anonymous Psychopath]

Someone's already thought of that:

http://pornfortheblind.org/