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Re: Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?

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From: GF Mueden
Date: Apr 18, 2013 2:02PM

One small thing designers can do is to provide feedback on every site to
make ir easy to report inaccessibility to the webmaster and in the case
of software, tp the managers.
George


On 4/18/2013 10:38 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> Hey gang
>
> I want to do a little promotion of Global Accessibility Awareness Day
> GAAD in Iceland on May 9th (though I won´t be there).
> I have connections to quite a few software and web development companies.
> I was thinking about what I could make them do for the day, or for a
> few hours, that has to do with accessibility, and will hopefully be an
> eye opener in a good way.
> One obvious thing is to ask everyone to work without their mouse for
> the day, or as long as they can.
> Another, I am wondering if it is easy and simple to turn color
> contrast on screens down so low as to make the user color blind, or if
> there is a plug-in that will provide these effects.
>
> Any other ideas would be welcome (and if there is already a collection
> of ideas out there, please point me to it).
> Cheers
> -B
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