[ILUG] testers
Darragh
lists at digitaldarragh.com
Thu Feb 22 14:13:32 GMT 2007
Interesting,
It seems that visually impaired users won't be able to make much sense from this at al.
The home page shows code. This is basically what I hear when using a screen reader. For your information a screen reader is what visually impaired and / or blind people use to read a computers interface. It speaks the highlighted or relevant part of the screen using synthesized speech or sometimes using Braille.
It's always worth ensuring your site is accessible to users of screen readers as believe it or not, they make up quite a lot of web browsers out there. And, when something isn't accessible, there's nothing we enjoy more than complaining about it... J.
As an example, here is what I hear when arrowing up and down your site. Each new line signifies a down key press.
Venials
table with 14 columns and 18 rows
images/help
Pages:
#070281
Flash movie start
table with 14 columns and 18 rows nesting level 1
http://www.venials.com/help.html
Pages:
#070281
Inactive Control
Played (59)
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Link to this
PARDON(39)
PUNISH(51)
Embeded:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
id="xspf_player" align="middle" height="17" width="17">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D118">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#e6e6e6">
<embed src="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D118" quality="high" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" name="xspf_player"
allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="17"
width="17">
</object>
URL:
http://www.venials.com/index.html&offset=0
#260512
Inactive Control
Played (43)
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Link to this
PARDON(5)
PUNISH(21)
Embeded:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
id="xspf_player" align="middle" height="17" width="17">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D117">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#e6e6e6">
<embed src="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D117" quality="high" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" name="xspf_player"
allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="17"
width="17">
</object>
URL:
http://www.venials.com/index.html&offset=0
#456789
Censored
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Pages:
table end nesting level 1
Flash movie end
Played (59)
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Link to this
PARDON(39)
PUNISH(51)
#260512
Flash movie start
table with 14 columns and 18 rows nesting level 1
http://www.venials.com/help.html
Pages:
#070281
Inactive Control
Played (59)
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Link to this
PARDON(39)
PUNISH(51)
Embeded:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
id="xspf_player" align="middle" height="17" width="17">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D118">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#e6e6e6">
<embed src="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D118" quality="high" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" name="xspf_player"
allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="17"
width="17">
</object>
URL:
http://www.venials.com/index.html&offset=0
#260512
Inactive Control
Played (43)
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Link to this
PARDON(5)
PUNISH(21)
Embeded:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"
id="xspf_player" align="middle" height="17" width="17">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D117">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#e6e6e6">
<embed src="http://www.venials.com/musicplayer.swf?song_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.venials.com%2Fmp3.html%26sin%3D117" quality="high" bgcolor="#e6e6e6" name="xspf_player"
allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="17"
width="17">
</object>
URL:
http://www.venials.com/index.html&offset=0
#456789
Censored
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Pages:
table end nesting level 1
Flash movie end
Played (43)
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Link to this
PARDON(5)
PUNISH(21)
#456789
Censored
Thu 22nd Feb 2007
Pages:
images/venials_layout_26
table end
-------- Original Message --------
> From: Kevin Brennan <kevin.brennan at redsquared.com>
> Sent: 22 February 2007 13:32
> To: ILUG <ilug at linux.ie>
> Subject: [ILUG] testers
>
> Hi Folks,
> We're in beta mode with a new site, wondering if there was anyone
> there risky enough to test. You can admit to using windows, this would
> probably be unpardonable.
> Any feedback welcome.
> http://www.venials.com
>
> /Kevin
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