I have said over and over that access is not about blindness, it is about
interaction.
The solution as others have also shared is making sure wcag 2.0 is
followed, making certain that browsers that function from the keyboard,
use html and the like work...that means a person using a voice browser gets
in the door, or an augmented keyboard, or any number of screen readers
that are not yours.
Individuals with learning disabilities use screen readers as well.
You chose to defend your combination of tools as interchangeable to other
people besides yourself.
The suggestion that your solution can be projected onto anyone else at
all, speaking personally, creates comparative discrimination to
suggesting that no access should exist because, as I have heard
misinformed people say as well, my <insert relationship> was blind and
could not use a computer, so you cannot do that either, or insert
person uses jaws, so you have to use that too.
One of the points made by domino's and echoed in a prior post is correct.
By not establishing firmly that wcag 2.0 is the standard, something
many other jurisdictions around the world have done, the Supreme court
will simply suggest the lower court conflicted rulings be addressed.
Those standards seek inclusion for everyone, not a specific population,
because inclusive design helps far more than one group of people
when properly applied, because many people in many settings do not want to
or cannot load heavy graphics.
I am likewise concerned that the innovation point made in the second
article shared will result in greater inconsistencies too. People making
decisions much like ours. My screen reader combination works for me, so
every other body can just change to my tool.
Accessibility is a foundation on which as many tools as possible can be
used, not where one tool used by one person defines the door for the rest.
On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Okay, such a sound sensitivity certainly complicates matters, and I
wouldn't even know where to start with offering advice, especially
since I've never even heard of such a thing before. That said, best I
can remember, this is the first mention in this thread of anyone
having a disability other than blindness/visual impairment, so even if
I knew some people had such strong reactions to certain sounds and
knew anything about the kinds of accommodations that work for some
with such sound sensitivities, I wouldn't have known such was relevant
here. My advice wouldn't work for a blind-deaf person or someone whose
hands are too arthritic to type either and probably wouldn't help even
a fully able person if they know nothing of English. Still, unless
there's a PRNG in play, running a given input through a computer
program should produce the same output regardless of who's running the
program.
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