Visually impaired users and weblog Comments

Visually impaired users and weblog Comments

Posted Nov 2, 2003 13:20 UTC (Sun) by kevinbsmith (guest, #4778)
In reply to: Weblog Comments - A New Frontier for Spam by eru
Parent article: Weblog Comments - A New Frontier for Spam

> The second accessibility problem might be fixable by adding
> a similar method that replaces the image with a link to a
> sound file reciting a short sequence of random numbers
> (composed from snippets each saying a single numeral).
> Visually impaired people are likely to use an audio-capable browser.

Actually, a large number of visually impaired people use Braille output devices instead of spoken text. And of course audio "images" would still lock out lynx users.

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