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Enabling people with disabilities access Google Blogger Service

<p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. Web accessibility also benefits others, including older people with changing abilities due to aging [1].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nowadays social networks become more and more important in our ordinary life, especially life of youngsters. Millions of Internet users read or either write blogs, they share feelings, emotions, thoughts, information, video and much more.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>That&rsquo;s why it was decided that it would be unfair to deprive blind people and people with low eyesight of such an interesting part of nowadays life. So it was decided to create easy implementing tool to provide access to blogs for disabled people with low eyesight. As a platform Google Blogger was chosen as far as it provides a lot of possibilities to manage the structure of the blog.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Exisiting solutions include contrast schemas and voice generators. But the major problem in using the voice generators is that they do not structure the information, namely the order of the information that is read out-loud is usually not the right one, so person gets into a chaos of information and he\she has to understand on his own, what is realtions between pieces of information he received.&nbsp;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">References:<br />[1]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php">http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: -17.4pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p></p>
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