Sometimes You See More Clearly When You’re Blind

Posted by in Misc, User Experience on Jan 5th, 2009 | 0 comments

Snatched up this little gem via a JD tweet:

Instead of asking how something should work if a person cannot see...he prefers to ask, How should something work when the user is not looking at the screen

I love standing a problem / argument on its head. Leave it to a blind guy to take a different tack that helps us see a universal humanist approach to accessibility. I’m still not sure how I feel about mandates (I worry about getting bogged down in the web’s infancy) or specific tech like screen readers, but I do think we’re getting closer to having the technology pieces that will help us build a richer and more accessible web (I’m thinking of the ocr stuff that Evernote does, the amazing video /image recognition research, the speech to text capabilites that Premiere has and the emergence of XMP).



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