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Rachele MeGinty-Mock DIGITAT. STUDIOT GRDS 720, Summer 2006 Professor Deshpande Exercise 8A: Surfing in the Dark Download a demo version of the IBM Homepage Reader. Try to search for something and proceed to purchase it (without actually buying it) using the reader. To get a better sense of the software, blindfold yourself. In a 600-800 word narrative, compare your ex- perience of finding an object on the WWW “sighted” vs, finding an object on the WWW “blind.” Please submit this exercise as a PDF via the submissions link on the course menu and post it to the Discussion Board for class discussion. How fortunate does everyone in this course feel that they are properly sighted? Thaye to admit T did not get very far trying my hardest with Apple's voice over. T still have the program open to listen to while T type. ITT hear the guy say ‘scrollbar’ one more time T think Tm going to scrcam. The amount of patience necessary for such a [cat is amazing. T began wanting to buy some AUDIO... T assumed in the back of my head that iTunes from the Apple.com site (a site that [ use everyday because [’m a podcast addict) which developed VOICE OVER would be an easy one to go on and purchase an audio file from. Yeah Right! 1 definitely cheated by putting the site’s address in ‘sighted’. From there | kept my eyes closed and proceeded to not do much. [ seemed to make a lot of windows pop up, assum- ing these are the accessible windows we haye been creating within our commercial siles. T originally started in SAFARI, thinking maybe T was having such a hard time because of the browser I decided to try FIREFOX. I kept gctting stuck on the bookmarks T had made on the lop and wasn‘l having an casy time gciting past them, I tried my hardest to phunk my cursor back down within the site and away from the application and again got another win- dow to open up... Now in sightcd-real-life, Pm a keyboard shortcut girl, T think my shortcut knowledge was actually hindering me... there was too much going on at the keyboard for me and not with the mouse, which | have always though synonymous with “surfing the net’. 1 got the VOICE OVER to stop saying ‘scrollbar’ and got it to start reading the page.. but then it stopped, | had hit something and couldn't get it back!!! [°m assuming if 1 were blind, in the amount of time it took me to just get to the point where 1 accidentally got iTunes to start reading its page to me, 1 could have had a taxi pick me up at my house and had already been driven to Tower Records and talking with a sales person regarding the new Bob Dylan T wanted to purchase (okay, T pecked al the page and saw Bob.) For my last and final alicmpt to buy something on iTunes T decided to open CAMINO. Apple's version of FIREFOX and supposed to be uber-Apple-Friendly, Now knowing what was on the page from my previous two allcmpls T think made the situation even more frus- trating! | couldn't get the VOICE OVER to read any of the content on any of this page... it simply stayed up on the program toolbar, | couldn’t even get the previous accident to hap- pen (AFTER | HAD OPENED MY EYES), and for it to read just a few words of text from the page before | accidentally turned it off. This is so hard to believe, that (TUNES didn’t work well with VOICE OVER. | would think Audio files that are so easily downloadable would be one of the first things to be created in an accessible environment! For my last allempt to even make this program work for me in some way. I did cave it on while visiting weather.com, o get my local weather for the day. T was not blindfolded and it did read for me the zip code T place in the scarch box, Apparently T live in Thirly Thousand Three Hundred and Nine! 
