The degree to which a piece of software (desktop, mobile, web-based, ...) can be used by a wide range of people, including people with disabilities and elderly people.
Questions tagged [accessibility]
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How important is graceful degradation of JavaScript?
Should web developers continue to spend effort progressively enhancing our web applications with JavaScript, ensuring that features gracefully degrade, thereby ensuring accessibility? Or should we spend that time focused on new features or other…
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Programming with Dyslexia
I have very severe Dyslexia along with Dysnomia and Dysgraphia. I have known about it since I was a child. My reading and writing skills are pretty crippled, but I have learned to deal with it.
However, with today's IDEs, I find it very easy to stay…
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What changes can I make to my IDE to minimize the effect of my dyslexia?
I program and I am dyslexic. My vision is excellent. I do poorly processing symbols and am a visual thinker.
When I code, I'm slower than normal people because I am unpredictably unaware of the errors I make. I am learning python and the text only…
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Is obtrusive JavaScript ever ok?
I was thinking that if all the users of a website are required to have JavaScript enabled, Is it ok to use obtrusive JavaScript?
I'm all for progressive enhancement, but what's the point when an advanced web application bounces users at the door if…
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What steps should be taken to make sure your software is usable by disabled people?
I want to make sure a piece of software I am writing is usable by people with various disabilities such as blindness and an inability to use a mouse and / or keyboard.
Unfortunately I have no experience with things such as screen readers or other…
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Parallel programming library? (+ some features)
Note: this is a reposting as the question has been considered non-suitable for the Stack Overflow forum and should have been posted here. The original topic is there.
I'd like to talk of multithreading, parallelism and the libraries available today…
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Why is accessibility important?
It seems to be quite a big thing right now and experience with converting web sites to be more accessible seems to be a common criteria for jobs.
My question is, why is it important?
Is it a legal issue? Can I get sued if my web site does not comply…
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Using Visual Studio with a screen reader without paying for an expensive edition
I'm a totally blind programmer who would like to learn .net.
It appears that the Visual Studio express editions are not accessible since the scripts that come with Jaws for Windows, the screen reading software I use, requires the VS object model to…
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Where can I ask for an accessibility review for a site?
I'm not too, too far (I hope) from finishing a site. I want to have it reviewed with an eye to its accessibility.
The site's job is to display streaming, up-to-the-10-second-period stock-option data.
Does anyone know of a group or forum where I can…
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Does Web Accessibility have something to do in server side languages?
I want to understand how web accessibility experts deals with websites if they want to confirm that those sites are compatible with accessibility guidelines. Do they have to understand any server-side language? or just HTML and CSS?
For example, if…
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Webcam software for both Windows and Linux – possible?
my visually impaired sister uses a webcam with DIY stand as a digital magnifier to read printed texts.
We wanted to initiate a project to create a software - in fact only a modified webcam viewer (like Cheese in Linux). Is it possible to have one SW…
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