First, the inspirational quote:
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and Inventor of the World Wide Web
Lighthouse.org A lot of help on designing with vision-impaired people in mind.
And finally, (Please don't slashdot this poor guy's site)... online classic stories (Twain, H.G. Wells, etc.). It's called www.readeasily.com , and was setup specifically for vision-impaired, but with such good stories that I often go there myself.
When I first started playing with MySQL, I also wanted to play with Postgres, but it did not run on Windows (or I had that impression, anyway). So, I found an old computer sitting around, downloaded and installed Linux, learned how to compile all the source for Postgres, and THEN finally started learning Postgres.
Of course I didn't! I was a newbie to most things on the computer, but i'd heard of MySQL, downloaded and installed the binaries in a few minutes, and was playing with my new database within an hour.
Postgres got behind when they didn't have Windows binaries for the masses to play with in the old days, and they've never caught up, IMHO.
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First, the inspirational quote: "The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and Inventor of the World Wide Web
Some info for people who want to learn more:
"Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI)", published in 1999 by the "World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)".
Lighthouse.org A lot of help on designing with vision-impaired people in mind.
And finally, (Please don't slashdot this poor guy's site)... online classic stories (Twain, H.G. Wells, etc.). It's called www.readeasily.com , and was setup specifically for vision-impaired, but with such good stories that I often go there myself.
When I first started playing with MySQL, I also wanted to play with Postgres, but it did not run on Windows (or I had that impression, anyway). So, I found an old computer sitting around, downloaded and installed Linux, learned how to compile all the source for Postgres, and THEN finally started learning Postgres. Of course I didn't! I was a newbie to most things on the computer, but i'd heard of MySQL, downloaded and installed the binaries in a few minutes, and was playing with my new database within an hour. Postgres got behind when they didn't have Windows binaries for the masses to play with in the old days, and they've never caught up, IMHO.