Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Blogger just got more accessible

Word Verification for All
This morning I noticed this little bugger next to the word verification field in the comments window. If you click on the accessibility icon, a series of numbers is spoken, and you just type those in. Now we're on the right track! Thank you, Blogger.

Now. How about Publishing for All?

Hopefully full support for publishing with the Opera browser will not be far behind (I have to use Firefox in order to use all the posting tools, including the one that let me include this image). Opera works on different platforms, is small, quick, loaded with features, and has the best accessibilty features for the visually impaired. Resizing web pages are a snap. Not just text, but images can be made up to 1000% larger and are rescaled to be more readable.

Accessibility is a beautiful thing. Don't stop working on it.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yes, the little handicapped thingie is way cool. I was just over at Burrow's (my first stop of the day) and I thought she'd gotten it just for Blog Against Disability day! Didn't realize it was a Blogger-wide new feature. Very nice.