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Web Design Layout to Speech Program? (self.Blind)
submitted by Envrin
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I'm sure not, but curious, has anyone ever encountered some type of web design flaw to speech program? For example, give it a URL or HTML page, and it will give you a general description of the layout in different resolutions (header is fully across the top, about XXpx in height, background color is sky blue, left nav back is..., body is this large, top right corner there's this box, etc.).
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Then also check for, and spit out common flaws such as:
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\- This text is too light / dark for its background (eg. white text on light grey background).
\- On \*this\* screen resolution, this element doesn't even show up.
\- This text overflows its parent container
\- There seems to be too many padding / margin between these two elements
\- Whoa! You have a 300px spacing between these two paragraphs!
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Things like that. Again, highly doubt something like this exists, but has anyone by chance ever heard of one? Thanks!
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I'm sure not, but curious, has anyone ever encountered some type of web design flaw to speech program? For example, give it a URL or HTML page, and it will give you a general description of the layout in different resolutions (header is fully across the top, about XXpx in height, background color is sky blue, left nav back is..., body is this large, top right corner there's this box, etc.).
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Then also check for, and spit out common flaws such as:
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\- This text is too light / dark for its background (eg. white text on light grey background).
\- On \*this\* screen resolution, this element doesn't even show up.
\- This text overflows its parent container
\- There seems to be too many padding / margin between these two elements
\- Whoa! You have a 300px spacing between these two paragraphs!
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Things like that. Again, highly doubt something like this exists, but has anyone by chance ever heard of one? Thanks!
CloudsOfMagellan 3 points 3y ago
There's tools that'll check for accessibility issues though they should only be used as a guide as they are not perfect
Ironically I doubt many of those tools are very accessible
Ironically I doubt many of those tools are very accessible
Marconius 2 points 3y ago
There is nothing as verbose as what you are asking for, and especially nothing that describes overall site layout, but the Developer Tools in Google Chrome now has a functional accessibility inspector which picks out low-hanging fruit when it comes to WCAG violations, and Deque Systems has their AXE Chrome extension which does the same thing but is arranged and designed better for screen reader interaction.
There are no padding/margin guidelines for overall layout in terms of accessibility, so that would truly come down to a sighted designer taking a look at a site and determining the overall layout and structure. You could break down the HTML and the CSS file if you can get it and figure it all out from there, but design is really subjective so it would be impossible to create anything that greps design and layout and gives overall feedback without a set of design rules.
There are no padding/margin guidelines for overall layout in terms of accessibility, so that would truly come down to a sighted designer taking a look at a site and determining the overall layout and structure. You could break down the HTML and the CSS file if you can get it and figure it all out from there, but design is really subjective so it would be impossible to create anything that greps design and layout and gives overall feedback without a set of design rules.
Envrin [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Thanks very much for your time in replying, appreciate it. Yeah, figured as much, and not really much out there.
Thanks.
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