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Just curious, since your clients are visually impaired people, what steps did you take to make your website accessible? It seems to be from a pre-made template

Just curious, since your clients are visually impaired people, what steps did you take to make your website accessible? It seems to be from a pre-made template, did you check the template ahead of time? Do you have visually impaired engineers, or do you do things like go through it with a screen reader/iOS VoiceOver every so often?

liveoneggs 9y ago
is it accessible? http://wave.webaim.org/report#/http://www.sunu.io/ http://wave.webaim.org/report#/http://www.sunu.io/
marco_trujillo 9y ago
Thanks for asking. We did tried to find accessible templates to screen readers with no luck. So we picked a template we liked and turn it accessible. How? we found good resources (like https://webaccess.berkeley.edu/resources/tips/web-accessibility https://webaccess.berkeley.edu/resources/tips/web-accessibil...), download most used screen readers (NVDA, VoiceOver, Windows Eyes) did our homework and bounced it with some blind friends to make sure.
- mikekchar 9y ago
  I'm curious why you didn't go the other direction: build an accessible web page and then try to make it attractive to sighted people. No need for a template -- just straight HTML with black text on a white background. I'm not trying to be facetious here. I'm genuinely curious if there are market pressures that make a "good looking" website higher priority than an accessible one -- for example a need to look impressive to stake holders who are not visually impaired. "We didn't think of that" would be an OK response :-). I'm just curious about the challenges for a startup in this kind of market and where one might have to make surprising compromises.
  - mholmes680 9y ago
    not OP, but i think the overall challenge is cheaply coming up with a not-cheap product than can apply to the largest section of the limited market. Its expensive to advance the tech here, for a limited economic benefit to the company trying to advance the tech. As the brother to a visually impaired person, I found the website fine. If only you could ship by his August 1 birthday! :)

liveoneggs 9y ago

is it accessible? http://wave.webaim.org/report#/http://www.sunu.io/ http://wave.webaim.org/report#/http://www.sunu.io/

marco_trujillo 9y ago

Thanks for asking. We did tried to find accessible templates to screen readers with no luck. So we picked a template we liked and turn it accessible. How? we found good resources (like https://webaccess.berkeley.edu/resources/tips/web-accessibility https://webaccess.berkeley.edu/resources/tips/web-accessibil...), download most used screen readers (NVDA, VoiceOver, Windows Eyes) did our homework and bounced it with some blind friends to make sure.

mikekchar 9y ago
I'm curious why you didn't go the other direction: build an accessible web page and then try to make it attractive to sighted people. No need for a template -- just straight HTML with black text on a white background. I'm not trying to be facetious here. I'm genuinely curious if there are market pressures that make a "good looking" website higher priority than an accessible one -- for example a need to look impressive to stake holders who are not visually impaired. "We didn't think of that" would be an OK response :-). I'm just curious about the challenges for a startup in this kind of market and where one might have to make surprising compromises.
- mholmes680 9y ago
  not OP, but i think the overall challenge is cheaply coming up with a not-cheap product than can apply to the largest section of the limited market. Its expensive to advance the tech here, for a limited economic benefit to the company trying to advance the tech. As the brother to a visually impaired person, I found the website fine. If only you could ship by his August 1 birthday! :)