The User Experience of a Blind Person
summary
A live demo shows a blind person navigating Windows Chrome using NVDA with eSpeak, relying on headings, landmarks and keyboard-only navigation. The talk reports that automated accessibility tools catch only about 40–50% of issues and describes concrete failures — unlabeled cryptic links, checkboxes not exposed to assistive tech, and layout tables that create redundant spoken cells — and presents an educational course plus user testing with blind participants to discover and fix those specific problems.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to accessibility
- 6:26Accessibility problems example
- 10:39Non-semantic markup
- 13:08Navigation for blind users
- 20:21Q&A
- 25:00Special website versions
- 31:52Universal design standards
- 37:14Testing accessibility
- 42:52Conclusion
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