By Guest Author: David Reynolds, software engineer for over 30 years.
Back in the Eighties, scanning and document recognition was the buzz word. The vision was for all Visually Impaired people to be equipped with scanners and OCR software, and I remember vividly training blind people to read recipe books, album covers, training materials, etc.
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I have had the great pleasure to have had a number of chats with David Reynolds, a blind internet user. He has provided me with some very useful insights as to how website structure, coding and set-up can affect the accessibility of websites to the visually impaired.
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Yesterday after I had written the 3 articles about my analysis of the 3 main UK political parties’ websites I twittered all 3 parties with a link to the relevant post.
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Summary-Who Wins the Accessibility Election?
Following my analysis of the 3 main political parties’ websites I have summarised the results below;
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As the election looms I wanted to look at just how responsibly each major political party carries out its own policies and decided to do this by looking at website accessibility and just how careful the main political parties are about complying generally with the guidelines for accessibility and general coding. After all we want a government that is respectful, honest and transparent don’t we…..
Of all of the sites I have looked at the Liberal Democrat website annoys me the most.
This article is the third in a number of articles regarding the main UK political parties and their websites with a particular focus on accessibility, looking at the reality of what the UK political parties actually do compared to their stated policies.
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