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When you say "we", I assume you mean the United States. There's already progress in that direction in other countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_access
by Adrock 14y ago
When you say "we", I assume you mean the United States. There's already progress in that direction in other countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility#Legally_required_web_accessibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility#Legally_requi...
It's already a de facto requirement for anyone selling software to the government. When I was a PM at Microsoft working on Visio, I was surprised and amazed at how much time and energy went into accessibility of all the Office product. It's not easy to make a visual design program like Visio work well for the blind or visually impaired!
- antidoh 14y agoPlease say more about that. I'm trying to think how a blind user could effectively use a visual design program or its output. Do you output text representation of diagrams? Does a blind user put the product to some use and purpose that's different from the average sighted user?
- epascarello 14y agoIf the visual representation can be described with data, you give them the option to view that data. Images have a longdesc attribute for this http://webaim.org/techniques/images/longdesc http://webaim.org/techniques/images/longdesc Not all visual applications can be made accessible.