Date: 2018-12-23 06:36 pm (UTC)
lb_lee: A happy little brain with a bandage on it, enclosed within a circle with the words LB Lee. (0)
From: [personal profile] lb_lee
I'll be the first to admit, my web design skills are rudimentary and trapped in the '90s. That said, accessibility is not actually as difficult as people think it is... IF THEY HAVE IT AT THE START.

Take my website for instance. It looks old-fashioned, but I built it with alt-text from the very start, because my roommate at the time used peculiar Linux text-only browsers. She became my beta tester, so as a matter of course, I built my website to be accessible to her... which happened to make it accessible to my blind friends. And because I had dial-up for a long time, I automatically tried to make the website as resource-light as possible.

If you build it into your core design from the start, accessibility isn't actually that difficult at all. The problem is that people don't.

(I mean, some media are inherently less accessible--video without transcripts requires adequate vision, hearing, and Internet connection, but that is why I don't make videos.)


EDIT: NEVER MIND, I just saw that you're one of the accessibility designers of DW and thus know WAY more about this shit than I am likely to. Insert foot into mouth.
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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.

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