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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?"
Deserve? Would you ask the same question about the mute, deaf, physically disabled? Or people from different ethnicities? Do they 'deserve' better webdesign???
That's the most brainless and condescending headline I have read on Slashdot for a long time.
Even web sites for blind-people organizations are poorly made.
http://www.cnib.ca/
It's better than before, but I'm sure that it isn't as user friendly for blind people as it could be. If they can't make it right, then why should we help blind people?
testing out my trending skills