Disability

A couple of different things struck me while I was reading through the Virtual World blogs. In New World Notes, there was a short entry about whether or not SL would be required to become accessible to disabled, most specifically blind, users. This may sound bad, but I have never really thought about how the blind might access the internet and now that I think about it... it must be very complicated to make websites through which the blind can navigate. The author came to the conclusion that it would eventually happen, that blind users would find SL accessible and that it is of course a good thing. I just couldn't believe I had never thought about that before.  read more »