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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: Oct 6, 2016 3:24AM

Hello,
I am wondering if any kind of thought has ever been put towards how blind
creators and designers can make their content visually appealing? Most of
this has to do with the fact blind people have no idea what looks good and
their screen reader doesn't have a setting that says "Looks good" or "Can
you move that element to the right because it is covering some text?"
But this is a huge problem because one can have the most amazing and easy
to use application or product, but if it doesn't look good, then no sighted
person is going to touch it.
What this means is that if a blind programmer wishes to do front-end
design, they can't unless they can make something that looks good. This
means that if a blind person wishes to make a Word document or Excel file,
they can make their content, but the first sighted person who reads it is
going to go crazy at all the differently sized fonts, the extra spaces that
are not visible to the screen reader and different sizes of text.
So just as there is a checklist for creators to make their content
accessible to people with AT, there should be a checklist for people with
AT (primarily screen reader users) to make their content accessible to
sighted users.

I have asked blind programmers what they currently do and the responses are
not very reassuring. Some use prebuilt templates and just don't mess with
the defaults, some have a sighted designer who makes the site look good and
others don't do front-end.
But this is a problem I think is really big when it comes to blind people
and employment. Because if a blind person needs to make a document that is
distributed to all the employees, make promotional materials, create
templates for others to use or make powerpoints to present to bosses or
clients, there is going to be no trust, either by the blind person or their
colleagues, that the blind person can make a usable document without help.

I would like to know if anyone knows of any resources or guidelines for
making content accessible to sighted users?
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;