Quotes by Joe Clark

A blind person using a screen reader must experience the links one after another, which is rather inconvenient. They've got better things to do.

'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse.

Even if you set aside the need for valid code, it is ridiculously easy to find non-government sites that flunk even the simplest and most canonical requirements of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, like using alt texts for images.

I am not convinced my suggested methods are actually as usable as I think they are.

I use the same definition of accessibility everywhere: accommodating features a person cannot change or cannot change easily.

In any event, accessibility is almost as poorly-known now as it was 2.5 years ago when I started work on my book. That's because most 'Web' developers aren't making Web sites at all, since they don't have a clue what valid HTML and CSS means.

Navigation is important, but the single biggest issue is prodding Web developers into learning how to make standards-compliant sites. They've quite simply been doing it wrong all along.

The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single biggest boost to achieve equivalence, since the real-world Web is a visual medium.

There are so many parts of online captioning that either don't work or work badly that just getting it to work at all is an achievement.