Welcome to dw-accessibility!

[jeshyr]

We have an accessibility community!

So what do users want to put in it? I want to hear your opinions and thoughts and musings and anything else constructive please.

We also have an accessibility mailing list for the accessibility team volunteers, although it's fairly quiet at the moment.

I'm thinking that the community needs lots of "Accessibility 101" documents and links to relevant FAQs such as:

• What do I put in the "Description" field for my user icons?


• How to add links to your post in a friendly manner (aka Why "Click Here" is evil)


• etc.

And also we'll be open to answering user questions.

What else?

Comments

[dreamweaver]

Well we might want to point out which browsers are very accessibility friendly.

Like:

Firefox with it's NoSquint addon, which adds text zooming as well as page zooming.

Opera with built in page zooming.

for those with low vision, which I'm one of those:)

And maybe some instructions on accessibility settings in IE, and Windows.
Like the Windows magnifying tool.

How to find the tools and adjust the settings.

I've had a horrible time with Windows. But Firefox is sweet. Don't care much for Opera. The settings are too hard to find. Firefox makes everything much simpler, right down to changing all web pages to a preferred color with your prferred font sizes and it over rides the web page fonts and colors.

[jadelennox]

Firefox also with its mouseless browsing extension and its accessibility extension, and Opera with its built-in voice (which I'm not sure how many people actually use in production) and its built-in relief fine grained CSS control.