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I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot. Either way, that was a very bad analogy. And I don't say 'bad' with a moral connotatio

I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot. Either way, that was a very bad analogy. And I don't say 'bad' with a moral connotation. It was just stupid, really. I see that you maybe were alluding to the fact that blind people can't SEE the page, but you ignore that they can READ it with assistance of software/hardware in a variety of ways. The article goes in detail about that.

mileycyrusXOXO 9y ago
While I completely agree with you, your comment isn't very constructive. It attacks the user, informs him his argument is weak, and provides no argument or counterpoint to the discussion.
- enschlnd 9y ago
  Yes, I'm sorry. I was offended by that comment. Hopefully the edit fixes that.
- pg_is_a_butt 9y ago
  you're an ignorant hypocrite.
kutkloon7 9y ago
> I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot. I like to think of myself of neither of those, but if I have to choose I'd rather be a happy idiot than a miserable provocateur. > I see that you maybe were alluding to the fact that blind people can't SEE the page, but you ignore that they can READ it with assistance of software/hardware in a variety of ways. The article goes in detail about that. I noticed that, yeah. The point that I failed to get across (OK, maybe I was being a provocateur - or maybe I was just too lazy to properly make my point, I don't remember) was that I think that blind people should have a better alternative than a website which was primarily designed as a visual thing, but then made accessible for them as an afterthought. When you are making a site accessible for blind people, do it well and provide a separate page for them, without the visual and textual cruft. For governmental websites, it might be even appropriate to have a dedicated phone number.

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I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot. Either way, that was a very bad analogy. And I don't say 'bad' with a moral connotatio

by enschlnd 9y ago

mileycyrusXOXO 9y ago
While I completely agree with you, your comment isn't very constructive. It attacks the user, informs him his argument is weak, and provides no argument or counterpoint to the discussion.
- enschlnd 9y ago
  Yes, I'm sorry. I was offended by that comment. Hopefully the edit fixes that.
- pg_is_a_butt 9y ago
  you're an ignorant hypocrite.
kutkloon7 9y ago
> I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot. I like to think of myself of neither of those, but if I have to choose I'd rather be a happy idiot than a miserable provocateur. > I see that you maybe were alluding to the fact that blind people can't SEE the page, but you ignore that they can READ it with assistance of software/hardware in a variety of ways. The article goes in detail about that. I noticed that, yeah. The point that I failed to get across (OK, maybe I was being a provocateur - or maybe I was just too lazy to properly make my point, I don't remember) was that I think that blind people should have a better alternative than a website which was primarily designed as a visual thing, but then made accessible for them as an afterthought. When you are making a site accessible for blind people, do it well and provide a separate page for them, without the visual and textual cruft. For governmental websites, it might be even appropriate to have a dedicated phone number.