Kath Moonan's presentation at Scripting Enabled in London, September 2008. She covers the outcome of research done by Abilitynet with people with visual impairments and web sites.

1. Why I hate the Interweb! And what we can do about it

2. It’s really disheartening to hear users say they hate the web

3. They tell me the only go online when they have to But some disabled web users get such a bum deal

4. The web has the potential to give equal access to information for everyone! When things go well

7. Issues uncovered by users in a typical recent test Proportion of users facing each difficulty The site being tested was information based with few transactions

10. And some ideas from the team Here’s what they said

12. Johann Screen magnification software user

16. Nicola Voice recognition software / keyboard user

21. Users with dyslexia

24. Screen reader users

32. What difference does it make?

33. Controlling video playback For Kirin EasyYouTube was empowering

34. [email_address] All our test participants Especially Andrew, Nicola, Kirin Johann de Boer, Veronika Jermolina, Caleb Tang, Antonia Hyde Christian Heilmann Flame headed geek warrior! Thanks!