alistapart.com — As companies like Google and Yahoo! have simplified the process of placing information on a map by offering web services/APIs, the popularity and abundance of mapping applications on the web has increased dramatically. While these maps have had a positive effect on most users, what does it mean for people with accessibility needs?
Apr 18, 2006 View in Crawl 4
bloodjunkieApr 19, 2006
Some very cool ideas presented here.
stuartjmooreApr 19, 2006
naw, i was just kidding... now that i look at it, it's really cool. It'd be cooler if he used google maps (maybe with overlays to keep the visuals down), but still good.I'm still not sure what the purpose is. Doesn't seem to have the same one as google maps anyway... so no reason to compare...
donwilsonApr 19, 2006
"Its not always about you. What about people who are blind? I'm sure they would disagree with you."How about we make smarter web browsers and dont force web developers to rehash the same exact code that limits the application's abilities?
gannApr 19, 2006
Digg!! I know some blind people and they are all very frustrated when visiting some sites that have a lot of images (without ALT!) or flash. The situation is better now with more proper use of XHTML, CSS, RSS, etc. but still lots of sites are very user-unfriendly to them.
stegerApr 19, 2006
well the reason is that the anchor tag within the"dt" goes to the wikipedia page about that city. Plus for screen readers it would have the link shown as the dt and an anchor tag is far from the worst type of content tag. I think this is very usable in many circumstances and i digg it.
asalkoApr 23, 2006
Izzie: so it seems ;)