Day 15

Today we used WebAnywhere to navigate sites as a visually impaired person. We were unable to use our monitors and could only navigate based off of the screen reader who reads out the content of a page. We found that it was extremely time consuming and frustrating to try to get to where you want to go, despite how easily it is to navigate the site. Often times, it was hard to figure out how to get the reader to read the content in the middle of the page. Instead, it would read all of the side links and things that were unrelated to what we were searching for. I'm sure most of the diffuculty comes from the fact that we are not comfortable with this tool, nor are any of us comfortable with not using our eyes will searching the web. While someone who is actually visually impaired may have an easier time using the tool, there are still many issues apparent for handicapped people that want to use the web.