Saturday, July 23, 2016: 12:00 pm (Friedman): In a GUI-dominated cyberspace, the blind user is prey. When a UX change can mean the difference between productivity and disenfranchisement, when an interstitial scareware alert is indistinguishable from a legitimate error dialog, and when security cannot be established because accessibility is left to the aftermarket, the frustrating onus upon a non-visual user exceeds the empowerment the sighted user takes for granted. This talk will shed light on some of these invisible “gotchas.”

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