Met today with Paul of Knowbility to be sure the VoterVirgin site is accessible to all users. Good news! We are (and got some great tips too!)

Knowbility is a super-fine organization making sure that people with all sorts of challenges can access websites. At SXSW Interactive they set up a booth and volunteers will check your site.

Turns out, the visually challenged have a program called JAWS that reads web pages! You can even hear the code and user controls filter out punctuation and control the speed of the voice.

I wore my own set of headphones and listened (wow! it was fast!)so I could hear my web site being read out loud. The voice sounds a bit like Stephen Hawking.

I had never experienced cyberspace with my eyes closed. It was an awesome new view! Thanks Knowbility!