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Re:Losing Sight by joeevans1000 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @12:47AM (#10326484)
> I guess I'm saying don't be a jerk, be mindful of sight-impaired people when designing your products.

Agreed. Or name your javascript tool the same thing as the most popular screen reader.

JAWS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10005415

JAWS: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS

They even preserved the all caps. Now when vision impaired people search for their screen reader, they get results for a javascript framework, since they're both in the context of software as far as a search engine is concerned.

Re:Losing Sight by poizan42 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:24AM (#10327010)
Seems like exactly what trademark law was designed to prevent.
Re:Losing Sight by aw3c2 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @06:45AM (#10327162)
Oh come on, surely they get results for the animal as well? If you want a unique name, you have to invent one.
Re:Losing Sight by Kiro on Sunday October 04, 2015 @02:05AM (#10326664)
Seems like a very minor problem.
Re:Losing Sight by stedaniels on Sunday October 04, 2015 @03:51AM (#10326835)
For someone who's sighted.
Re:Losing Sight by j42 on Sunday October 04, 2015 @07:00AM (#10327191)
Really, though?

I always design with accessibility in mind, but I feel like there are more visceral complications than having to add a little extra context to a web search.

Almost everyone in development has encountered unfortunate name collisions that make what you're looking for hard to find... it's a pretty common inconvenience. Usually you just refine the query, like: "JAWS screenreader." The first result takes you where you probably intended to go, and it's at most 1-2 keystrokes away.

I think the real lesson here is to design inclusively. HTML has a lot of handy attributes to augment content; knowing & implementing the essentials means someone can follow the core flow of your site/application without relying on visual cues. And for the pragmatists... it has the added benefit of self-documenting and increasing semantic conformity in your markup.

Re:Losing Sight by Kiro on Sunday October 04, 2015 @08:35AM (#10327357)
I don't see how this problem is related to vision at all. Besides, why would someone need to google JAWS all the time? It's a software you install once. It's such a trivial issue compared to the accessibility problem on websites.