Although the primary content of ChurchCode is generally tips and resources related to software development, I occasionally come across a few stories that are too good too cool not to share.
And seeing as how the mission of The 8BIT Network is to resource the Church with relevant information, this fits.
I think that accessibility is one area of software development that we fail to focus on despite our level of awareness. Though it’s tough to admit, I’m guilty of it.
But I’m consistently impressed when others develop solutions for those that aren’t unable to experience the web as others.
Case in point: A couple of students at Queensland University of Technology have developed an open-source screen reader application for the blind. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this is that the developers are blind themselves.
“A sighted person takes for granted that they can sit down at any computer and use it,” Mr Teh said.
“We really are in the information age — everything is online these days. So access to computers for the blind and vision impaired is incredibly important, which is why we wanted our software to be free.”
How awesome is this?
Read the full article at Science Daily.
sokkz says
Now if we could just get everyone to use correctly formatted markup…
Tom says
Let’s not get carried away now 😉