Thread Subject: Re: Second Life

From: Katie Haritos-Shea
Date: Thu, Aug 02 2007 10:20 AM

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I agree with Jared.

Katie

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jared Smith < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>Sent: Aug 2, 2007 11:21 AM
>To: TEITAC Web/Software Subcommittee < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
>Subject: Re: [teitac-websoftware] Second Life
>
>On 8/2/07, Andrew Kirkpatrick < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
>> B) rely on the standards that reference the need to expose programmatic
>> information about UI objects to help address needs of blind users and
>> other standards to support other user populations and be explicit that
>> this type of application is not exempt
>
>I think we already have much of this, but it could certainly be
>strengthened. Second Life has a fairly powerful API and scripting
>engine that could allow someone to build a relatively accessible
>alternative interface for screen reader users. It would essentially
>turn much (though admittedly not all) of the visual and interactive
>elements into explanatory text elements that could be accessed. It
>would be much like directions in Google Maps - the maps themselves are
>not accessible to screen reader users, but the text directions are.
>
>There really is a lot of potential to making such environments
>accessible and insomuch as we can promote this with the guidelines, we
>should do so. Simply 'punting the issue to equivalent facilitation'
>will likely happen anyway, but by providing guidance, we can encourage
>some levels of accessibility.
>
>Jared Smith
>

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