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How accessible is Ning?
Replied Mar 31
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I have, yes. It has some good uses but doesn't solve all problems - of course, there isn't anything that solves all problems! In general, the bookmarklets I referred to below do pretty well for me.
You'll find the 13 years old rule for pretty much any commercial service - there's a USA law that prevents collection of information about anybody under 13 without (I think?) written parental consent and that's too much trouble for most services to…
I've tried those, Karen, but they seem to miss-recognise what's the "main content" a lot of the time. I have hacked together my own bookmarklets that remove a lot of formatting and replace it with my choice of font, font size, and foreground/backgro…
To be honest, it's not all that surprising - a lot of websites fail badly when you increase the font size. But most allow a skin that makes it better.
For example Wikipedia page for Alaska looks like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska
It doe…
I'm not a keyboard-only or screen reader user, but for low vision users Ning sucks! The pages are visually cluttered with lots of columns and it's difficult to find new information. If I increase the browser's font size so I can read the text the la…
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- At 1:18am on March 28, 2009,
Samuel Charles Sennott said…
- Hi Ricky. Glad to see you here.
Hey, in case anyone hasn't seen Ricky's blog atmac.org, its awesome.
Profile Information
- Hometown:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Role
- AT Specialist, Independent Consultant
- About Me:
- I'm 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. I'm bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When I'm not working on ATMac or my other websites I compose music, listen to audio books, design T-shirts, do other disability advocacy, watch TV with my flatmate, and enjoy my cat.
- Website:
- http://notdoneliving.net/
- Additional Blog Site
- http://atmac.org/
- Additional URLs (wikis, delicious, etc)
- http://bedbound.org/
http://notjustwork.info/
http://nopitycity.com/
- Skype:
- rickybuchanan
- Twitter Name:
- rickybuchanan
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