T.V. Raman is a Research Scientist
at Google who knows a thing or two about accessibility. We took the opportunity to interview
him, and Hubbell, his seeing-eye dog (who was nice and quiet).
We
started out by asking the honest question that developers ask about accessibility: "What is in
it for me?". T.V. discusses the practical issues, and what you should be doing with respect to
accessibility, and how it is one piece of the usability picture.
We
then delve into the problems of developing accessible websites, and solutions to some of the
problems.
If you listen to the interview you will learn:
How not to develop in a user-agent specific
manner
Fun issues with screen readers
How audio
CAPTCHA brings equality to the pain of CAPTCHA, and how people who can see use the audio
ones
