- From: WCAG Mark in Idaho <wcagmark@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:20:47 -0700
- To: wai-eo-editors@w3.org
- Message-ID: <fea5a8f7-8b21-7111-ce5f-09f61cf9c192@gmail.com>
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.
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