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Remember these people are cooperating with you. They are living with their disabilities full-time, and they might have found some remarkably clever ways to get along with it. I've seen blind people with iPhones (I have no idea), and a kid who used his wheelchair as a tractor to pull machinery around his parents' farm. You can work with these people, they're smart.

Whether you make your site fully screen-reader compatible is up to you, but enabling some simple hacks (e.g. custom stylesheets, browser zooming) really goes a long way. People are not homogenous anyway, so it's a good idea to not narrow down their path, impairment or not. Some people don't like to read as much, some are confused by complex looking graphics, some like animation while others are easily distracted. You need to provide different access paths anyways, at least in many of the more complex cases.

Personally I love reading large bunches of text, but I usually hate videos where I can't go at my own pace. I'd happily read transcripts if I could, but providing video only would lose you a visitor. Incidentally providing transcripts also helps with accessibility.



> Whether you make your site fully screen-reader compatible is up to you, but enabling some simple hacks (e.g. custom stylesheets, browser zooming) really goes a long way.

Yes! It isn't as if "please don't use horrible fonts; please choose high contrast colours; please allow zooming" is some onerous difficult to follow arcane ruleset.


> I've seen blind people with iPhones (I have no idea)

Video demonstrating how blind people use iOS devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIQWyp13beE




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