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embplaton Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week

Here's a Wired article on this subject from today: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/wet/

embplaton Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week

The Canadian government is in the same boat. In fact, they are offering an open source framework that is modern, responsive and complies with WCAG requirements: https://github.com/wet-boew/wet-boew

embplaton Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP

1. Find someone on (Elance|Odesk|etc.) to do it for less than half of $5,000 2. Get the difference 3. Profit

embplaton 2012: A Year in PHP

Indeed. Laravel (especially the upcoming version 4) is the best thing that happened to the PHP community in a while!

embplaton Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week

Read about WCAG (http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag), that's what you need to follow to make web sites accessible, not markup validation, which really means "jack shit".

Visual impairment does not necessarily equal total blindness. Accounting for text size, contrast level, etc. is a lot to consider. AA conformance level (middle level, so to speak) is very hard to achieve.