What are some Common obstacles people with disabilities face on the Web?
Blindness makes it impossible to view a standard screen display or printed output. A person who is blind often will use a speech output system to read aloud text that is presented on the screen; this system may be composed of screen reading software and a voice synthesizer. A blind person may or may not be able to use a Braille output system, such refreshable Braille displays that allow line-by-line translation of a screen into a Braille display areas. Scanners with optical character recognition (OCR) that can read printed material and store it electronically where it can be read using speech output or Braille may also be used to read web documents. People who are blind cannot view the graphical features of your Web site. Many people with visual impairments use voice output programs with nonstandard browsers (such as pwWebSpeak or Lynx) or graphical browsers with the feature that loads images turned off. Include text equivalents or “text alternatives” to make the content in graphical f
