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From: Webb, KerryA
Date: Mar 23, 2011 3:39PM

Birkir wrote:
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> In general, and you can call me idealistic, I am extremely weary of
> solutions where the developer of a web page has to write a lot of
> special code to make the page accessible to a group of people.

I'll happily call you idealistic, but if you look at Browsealoud you'll see that the web developer does not have to write a lot of special code. It doesn't work that way.

And, as it's been pointed out, it's directed at people with cognitive disabilities who'll benefit from the content being read out, rather than people with vision impairment.

Kerry
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Kerry Webb
Manager, Policy Office
Shared Services | ACT Government

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