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Posted by rebecca It's easy to dismiss or overlook accessibility when thinking of optimization but like it or not some eyes on the web can't actually see. One company has learned that the hard way as blind web surfers are suing Target for having an inaccessible web site. The article on MSNBC has the following snippet:
Danielsen who writes a blog called "The Voice of the Nation's Blind" for the National Federation of the Blind says accessing the Internet has been a "huge boon" for blind people. It's allowed them to accomplish a great number of tasks on their own that would otherwise present difficulties or require the help of a sighted person such as banking buying plane tickets and shopping for things like groceries and music.
But like any evolving technology accessing the Internet has hardly been a smooth ride for the blind. Some sites can be difficult to navigate particularly if they contain relatively few text links and rely more on graphics and other visual elements that screen-reading software such as Jaws can't interpret. According to the article images with no alt tags and unlabeled forms are among the biggest obstacles for blind or vision-impaired web users. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit it's bound to open the eyes of corporations who have sites that are poorly optimized to meet disabled users' needs. Will we begin to see more acknowledgment of these often overlooked users as a result?View Comments
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posted by Smile Community @ 1:07 PM
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