{"id":21,"date":"2007-04-02T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-03-21T08:33:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T21:33:43","slug":"slight-accessibility-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/2007\/04\/slight-accessibility-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Slight accessibility rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at TAFE right now, and we\u2019ve just reviewed a non-acces\u00adsi\u00adble web\u00adsite demon\u00adstra\u00adtion at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drc.org.uk\/employers_and_service_provider\/services_and_transport\/inaccessible_website_demo.aspx\">DRC<\/a>. Out of the three exam\u00adples, I think the mouse one is prob\u00ada\u00adbly the most eye-open\u00ading; even though I\u2019ve seen peo\u00adple with arthri\u00adtis and Parkin\u00adsons I\u2019ve nev\u00ader made the con\u00adnec\u00adtion to how hard it would be to use the mouse accu\u00adrate\u00adly. I sup\u00adpose there\u2019s dri\u00advers out there that smooth mouse input, but that\u2019s not the&nbsp;point.<\/p>\n<p>The low-con\u00adtrast demon\u00adstra\u00adtion web\u00adsite is hor\u00adri\u00adbly dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to read when a basic blur is applied, remind\u00ading me that it\u2019s time to boost the con\u00adtrast of my own blog\u2019s text.<\/p>\n<p>Peo\u00adple with a screen-read\u00ader real\u00adly suf\u00adfer the worst. I haven\u2019t ever got\u00adten around to play\u00ading with screen-read\u00ader soft\u00adware, though for the last few years I\u2019ve been <a href=\"?p=17\">acute\u00adly aware<\/a> of the issues pre\u00adsent\u00aded by tables and images with\u00adout alts. The bad old days of tables are thank\u00adful\u00adly gone, but there\u2019s still a large num\u00adber of devel\u00adop\u00aders find\u00ading oth\u00ader invis\u00adi\u00adble pot\u00adholes to put in their&nbsp;code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at TAFE right now, and we\u2019ve just reviewed a non-acces\u00adsi\u00adble web\u00adsite demon\u00adstra\u00adtion at DRC. Out of the three exam\u00adples, I think the mouse one is prob\u00ada\u00adbly the most eye-open\u00ading; even though I\u2019ve seen peo\u00adple with arthri\u00adtis and Parkin\u00adsons I\u2019ve nev\u00ader made the con\u00adnec\u00adtion to how hard it would be to use the mouse accurately.&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xhva.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}