From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2005-11-28T22:05:36+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Turing 0.0.7 && cry for help

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Michal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> > You appear to be saying: "It's OK for my package to discriminate
> > against blind people, because I'm going to be doing that anyway."
> 
> Nah, what I really mean is something like:
> 
> I developed this for my Master's thesis and I expect it to be used
> (by me) at servers that have mostly "visual" content, thus I didn't
> have to work on this issue in the first version.

Some consideration of accessibility issues might be a good thing to
write up, even if you don't have time to address them.  ["Audio
description", "tactile maps", "Living Paintings Trust" ] is probably
a sufficient list to get you started on accessibility techniques for
visual media.
> 
> Since I released it to public, I'm more than willing to make necessary
> changes to the code to support other authentication methods -- I'm
> just not sure what it should be (or how to implement "aural" captcha
> for example).

Well, one possiblity is textual only, accessible to deafblind people
as well:

http://www.rubyquiz.com/quiz48.html


I don't know what your website is for but there has been quite a bit
of work on voice browsers, and that is for sighted people.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
> 
> I'm open to any suggestions and/or patches.
> 
> Sounds better?
> 
> Rg,
>            Michal

        HTH
        Hugh