[Vit-discuss] Accessibility aspects of design.

[Ben Giddings]

Wow, you guys got off to a roaring start without me.  That's great!

I think accessibility should be a prime concern, and I'm really happy 
that the person raising the issue is someone who would actually use the 
feature(s).  I remember a long discussion in ruby-talk at one point 
about using "captcha"-things to prevent wiki spam.  One person mentioned 
he/she had heard that blind people needed something else, and then a 
whole bunch of people tried to design something for the theoretical 
"blind user", but no blind users were ever asked for their opinions.

Hugh, what are some examples of sites that are well designed for someone 
who likes reading with large font sizes?  Do you like sites that have a 
"simple" or "light" option, which is simply H1-H5 tags, HRs and 
paragraphs, or do you still want the tables/columns etc. but designed so 
that they resize properly when the font size is changed?  In your view, 
can the presentation issue be solved by CSS, or should there be a 
completely different rendering of the site for people with low vision?

I think this is related to the issue of multiple languages.  In one 
case, you have the same content rendered in two very different ways.  In 
the other case, you have different content rendered into very similar 
looking templates.  Because of this, I think it makes sense to try to 
address both issues at once.

Ben