[en] Video Introduction to Web Accessibility and W3C Standards

WCAG is a good start but fails miserably with people with visual 
processing limitation. The Guidelines need to be easier to read. They 
are like reading a legal brief written in Greek. Or, reading the HTML code.

I can't even get a browser that is not a challenge to use.

WCAG may do OK with standards for vision impaired, some hearing 
impaired, and the physically impaired but is does little for visual 
processing or memory impaired.

X'd out login names and BLACK DOT passwords take me multiple attempts to 
log in. I have to write down and hide passwords and login names because 
I can NEVER see them in context with a login page to be able to even try 
to visually memorize them.

Icons on browser toolbars with no text identifiers.

Closed captioning that is difficult to read because it is constantly 
moving and jerking.

Web pages with images that jump as ads populate with every scroll 
movement are impossible to read.

Web pages with maximum line length, 70 or 80 characters max as in the 
old paper publishing standard

News stories with double spaces every line or two are difficult to find 
the start of the next line.

Email clients that allow a new line without double spacing and allow one 
to set a maximum line length.

Not everybody uses a smart phone or tablet to do all of their online 
activity.

It appears that nobody who lives with these visual processing limits is 
involved with establishing the standards and guidelines.

I need to have HOME under that image of an old school building. I need 
Search under that circle with a line. I need Menu or something 
descriptive under those 3 bars. What does 3 dots mean? Or a star or 
something that looks like a page of text?

I learned to read when i was 4 years old. I don't need pictures. My 
brain does not translate icons and pictures into telxtual concepts.

Who do I scream at because "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO 
TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"  ?

The Cognitive Access User Research appear to assume some of these issues 
are being addressed. Most were a few years ago but as more web sites are 
made for touch screens  many of these problems have appeared in the 
latest versions of web pages, browsers, and software.

https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-user-research/

Mark in Idaho.

Received on Tuesday, 3 December 2019 12:01:47 UTC