disability

Are CAPTCHAs Accessible?

I am writing a website in my spare time for an educational facility and from what I've read on the statistics of this place they seem to have many disabled students studying there. Simply put, I'm setting up an account system where students can log in and receive basic information about their courses, allowing them to comment on their co...

Making CAPTCHA accessible to people with disabilities. What approaches have you used?

Hi Guys I'm nearing the completion of migrating our existing website to a CMS and I've just finished creating all the various contact forms. The CMS I'm using has CAPTCHA built into it's form builder, which is great, but the only method available is the "decipher-the-noisy-image" method. This approach works well, but it limits access f...

Can a site REQUIRE Javascript and still be Section 508-compliant?

I think I understand HOW Javascript has to work in order to be O.K. for section 508. But I have been unable to find an answer to a related question: does my site need to work WITHOUT Javascript in order to be section 508 compliant? To take an extreme case, if users without Javascript cannot log in, does that violate section 508 complia...

Are there any visually impaired PHP programmers?

Hi there folks ! I'm a PHP programmer from Bulgaria. I have a visual impairment called Keratoconus which worsens my vision with time, and although it's not very probable that it's going to develop much further I'm a bit worried about my programming career. Especially dealing with the front end work technologies like HTML/CSS/AJAX coding...