One of my best friends is blind and works specifically on this problem.
If everybody would just follow the W3C guidelines, and not use flash all would be better. Blinds dont use Windows Narrator - that thing only helps them while they get to stick Jaws on the box.
Jaws is the industry standard and it handles pretty good most of the crap that's out there - except for FLASH and some AJAX mess.
It is not hard - just follow the standard and thats it.
In the US section 508 requires that most material - including websites need to be accessible by people with disabilities - not just blind but everybody. Just a bit of common sense.
I worked in a rollout project with Circuit City whenthey replaced some of their POS systems. The new boxes were some IBM POS solutions with linux on them - I dont know from the top of my head but they seemd out of the box solutions - They pulled OS and all from BOOTP server, but I suppose you could get them preinstalled and all. Maybe IBM has more suggestions.
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One of my best friends is blind and works specifically on this problem. If everybody would just follow the W3C guidelines, and not use flash all would be better. Blinds dont use Windows Narrator - that thing only helps them while they get to stick Jaws on the box. Jaws is the industry standard and it handles pretty good most of the crap that's out there - except for FLASH and some AJAX mess. It is not hard - just follow the standard and thats it. In the US section 508 requires that most material - including websites need to be accessible by people with disabilities - not just blind but everybody. Just a bit of common sense.
I worked in a rollout project with Circuit City whenthey replaced some of their POS systems. The new boxes were some IBM POS solutions with linux on them - I dont know from the top of my head but they seemd out of the box solutions - They pulled OS and all from BOOTP server, but I suppose you could get them preinstalled and all. Maybe IBM has more suggestions.