Designers work to make Web accessible

Cynthia Ice is blind and lives in the suburbs, so shopping on the Internet can make her routine easier. But it also leads her into odd dead ends — like the time a technical shift in a Web grocery site made its meat department inaccessible to her screen-reading software. “Everybody could go on the Atkins diet but me,” she joked. Such troubles are especially common for computer users with disabilities as the Web takes on many features that make sites appear more like dynamic programs than static documents.

Designers work to make Web accessible
Cynthia Ice is blind and lives in the suburbs, so shopping on the Internet can make her routine easier. But it also leads her into odd dead ends — like the time a technical shift in a Web grocery site made its meat department inaccessible to her screen-reading software. “Everybody could go on the Atkins diet but me,” she joked. Such troubles are especially common for computer users with disabilities as the Web takes on many features that make sites appear more like dynamic programs than static documents.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-01-17-web-accessible_x.htm

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