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Re:How to design websites for blind and partially sighted pe... by enschlnd on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:07PM (#15019457)
I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot. Either way, that was a very bad analogy. And I don't say 'bad' with a moral connotation. It was just stupid, really.

I see that you maybe were alluding to the fact that blind people can't SEE the page, but you ignore that they can READ it with assistance of software/hardware in a variety of ways. The article goes in detail about that.

Re:How to design websites for blind and partially sighted pe... by mileycyrusXOXO on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:12PM (#15019503)
While I completely agree with you, your comment isn't very constructive. It attacks the user, informs him his argument is weak, and provides no argument or counterpoint to the discussion.
Re:How to design websites for blind and partially sighted pe... by enschlnd on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:17PM (#15019570)
Yes, I'm sorry. I was offended by that comment. Hopefully the edit fixes that.
Re:How to design websites for blind and partially sighted pe... by kutkloon7 on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:42AM (#15046590)
> I don't know whether you are some miserable provocateur or just an idiot.

I like to think of myself of neither of those, but if I have to choose I'd rather be a happy idiot than a miserable provocateur.

> I see that you maybe were alluding to the fact that blind people can't SEE the page, but you ignore that they can READ it with assistance of software/hardware in a variety of ways. The article goes in detail about that.

I noticed that, yeah.

The point that I failed to get across (OK, maybe I was being a provocateur - or maybe I was just too lazy to properly make my point, I don't remember) was that I think that blind people should have a better alternative than a website which was primarily designed as a visual thing, but then made accessible for them as an afterthought.

When you are making a site accessible for blind people, do it well and provide a separate page for them, without the visual and textual cruft. For governmental websites, it might be even appropriate to have a dedicated phone number.