Category: accessibility
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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #108 — Our 5 Senses Are Swappable
Over 285 million people are visually impaired in the world. What if they could see using their taste buds in the tongue rather than their eyes? A woman who is blind puts on a pair of glasses that contain a camera. The image from the camera is sent to a small device about the size of a postage…
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Top 5 Reasons Your Site Might Not Be Accessible
Today’s blog post is a guest post from Jeff Horvath, Ph.D., who owns Balanced Experience — a user experience consulting firm. Can you afford a $10M lawsuit? In 2006, the National Federation of the Blind filed a class-action lawsuit against Target claiming that blind users couldn’t access much of the content on the web site…