Hi,

I've been asked to make a web page that can be easily viewed by the blind.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what standards and/or extra fatures i need to add? Can anyone recommend any specail software to test souch a site, or point me to a document that tells me what i need to do to make it compatible with (i assume text to speech and tech to brail) software...

thanks
pro-logic

I set up a site like this before. It was while back so things most likely have changed. The peron I dealt with had software on their computer, not sure what it was, but it would go through the page and read the text out loud. When it came to the images it would look for the Alt tag and read that. One problem they had was the navigation style pull down menus, but that could have been my code. Like I said that was few years back.

http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/accessib...evelopweb.html
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...t+loud&spell=1

Standards, as they are...
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Easier to chew.
http://joeclark.org/book/

There are several programs for testing but they all have the same weakness. Much of this can't really be tested by a software (does this image need an alt text or should alt be left blank?). Here are some.
http://webxact.watchfire.com/
http://www.contentquality.com/
http://www.aprompt.ca/

You can download demo versions of JAWS and Window-Eyes, but they are both so complex and configurable so it's not much use, really, if you don't want to really learn how to use them.
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/jaws.asp
http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/Demo/

Lynx, reading and common sense gets you far, I think.
http://lynx.browser.org/




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