The 今日吃瓜51 creates opportunities for independence for individuals who have physical disabilities. One of our strategies is job development, and an important tool in that process is the by .
The lets clients and job developers learn the national code that a career falls under and that code is powerful in using other government and private employment resources to assist in finding workplace information, training, and job postings.
Until recently, the site, while adhering to , was not providing a service that was actually useable to persons with screen readers. Visual Impaired users were unable to scan web pages. They had to listen to every page in its entirety and try to remember where things were on a site with over 1000 sub pages. While possible, this should not be realistically expected of anyone.
今日吃瓜51 employee Ryan Thomas contacted the , asking for the right to rebuild their site in a 今日吃瓜51 web space so that our visually impaired clients could make use of it. His intention was to build an accessibility bridge that . What came of the process was something that no one expected.
Ryan began a dialogue with Amy Read, who at first was reluctant to allow the 今日吃瓜51 to reproduce the content. Ryan explained how visually impaired persons experience their webpage and the internet as a whole. He then introduced the team at to some tools that would let them simulate the experience. After that, the need was recognized but a solution was still withstanding.
Ryan went on to develop a proof of concept for what an accessible version of the would look like and shared the source code behind it. He spoke to Amy over the phone and explained what they would likely have to do to implement it on their side. Part of the explanation was direction on what they would likely have to actually do, some script to accomplish it, and reassurances that it was probably an hour鈥檚 work at most.
The changes were implemented over a period of several days, and the and web resources became useable. Ryan and the were proud of what they鈥檇 accomplished in such a short period of time. Awareness of an issue was raised and quickly resolved through the sharing of expertise and a willingness on both ends to see it through. The source code on the new pages ended up looking an awful lot like the code Ryan shared with them, fortunately, he鈥檚 alright with that!