Monday, December 03, 2007

Social Comment?

What is this? You know. The little disabled guy (sorry, person) that's there whenever one needs to enter those asinine code letters. Does it mean I can't park my comment on that blog?

Someone suggested that it's assistance for the blind (sorry, sight impaired, or visually challenged), but isn't that like having a disabled parking sticker for blind drivers?

I even clicked it. All I got was babble. Seriously. Babble. Overlaid with some letters and numbers that bore absolutely no resemblance to the ones in the picture clue. Go try it yourself.

I'm sorry. I know I'm not politically correct, but I just don't get it.

5 comments:

e said...

LOL - I had never noticed the little disabled guy next to the letters. ?? I have no idea what that is. I'll root around for a blog with a thingy and check it out. I'll return with my observations. Well spotted.

e said...

Ok, I'm back. Mmmh. Weird. No gobbledygook, but when I pass my cursor over it, a little box says "Listen and type the numbers you hear" but when I click on it, nothing happens. Maybe I need some kind of special software for it.

Of course, that begs the question: if you are blind how do you even get to this point? I mean, you'd have to read the post, click on comments, and then click on the little handicapped icon. ?? There has to be something else, like a software that reads the words out loud or something.

pitfinder said...

There is in fact just such specialized software for the blind. This is why web design gurus reccomend trying to use as much text as one can and not to rely soley on pictures or flash animations. These things pretty much exclude the visually impaired from a website.

In fact, over here, there was a lawsuit about it recently.

http://www.dralegal.org/cases/private_business/nfb_v_target.php

Anonymous said...

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Chester The Bear said...

Hmmm. More spam on my blog.
For what it's worth, it's trying to say...

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I have no idea what any of that means.