Brainstorming: other

[elettaria]

If you have

* any disabilities, medical conditions or accessibility needs not covered in the previous posts

then comment here to tell me about your experiences, the adaptations or software you use or are interested in, what it's like surfing the web, what you'd want to know about a computer or computer equipment before buying it, and anything else you think is relevant. You can write on behalf of someone you know too.

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Not disability, but maybe relevant in the current age of mobility. Yesterday, I was trying to use my Eee on the bus, and bouncy ride + trackpad? Not such a great combination. I wished I had a way to navigate from link to link that did not involve trying to circle in upon it (and in some cases, keep the pointer in place while right-clicking and navigating a menu with the trackpad).

Also, I wish there were most solutions for dealing with small screens. More and more people surf the net on very small screens - and there have to be ways of making them more accessible.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Definitely relevant. I've just created a "netbook" tag for keeping track of discussions about the little critters. If I end up with a netbook, I'll certainly look at those issues, and I can always do things like simulating the netbook screen by making my programme windows the same size as it.

The first thing that occurred to me is that I hope you have one of the netbooks with a SSD, otherwise isn't it potentially damaging to the computer to use it in a moving environment? Secondly, I think there are ways of navigating links using the keyboard instead of the mouse. I haven't started exploring those yet, but if you look up accessibility for blind users, it should be in that area.

What sort of accessibility are you thinking of with regard to screens? Text appearance? Getting webpages to fit, which is even harder if you increase the font size? Anything else?