Kristof Neirynck » Accessibility http://www.crydust.be/blog yet another webdev blog Wed, 05 May 2010 16:13:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Silver Explorer http://www.crydust.be/blog/2008/02/27/silver-explorer/ http://www.crydust.be/blog/2008/02/27/silver-explorer/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:08:20 +0000 Kristof Neirynck http://www.crydust.be/blog/2008/02/27/silver-explorer/ As most of my friends know, I’m partially colorblind. Most webdevelopers have no idea what their site looks like for someone like me. Thanks to the power of Adobe Air I’m now capable of letting you experience it firsthand.

Silver Explorer is a browser that lets you surf the net in grayscale.

silverexplorer.air Flash version 9.0.115 required

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]]> I’ve recently had an accessibility training from Anysurfer. Roel Van Gils came to speak to me and the designers of indie group for an entire day.

We learned a lot that day!

  • Most blind users use internet explorer with a screen reader, that means no links nor lynx.
  • Well trained disabled users let their tts engine run at 130 words per minute which is faster than I can read.
  • Safari doesn’t support the label tag.
  • The descriptive (D) link is not understood by most users.
  • Jaws is not the most used screen reader in Belgium.
  • Flash is still not accessible even though Jaws supports its accessibility features.
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