The National Park Service has a term for people like you, "Touron". You carry the map and compass for when you get lost because you were so pig headed that you thought the game run was the trail. Do you also drink the water right from the stream because "it's all natural spring water!" and then don't understand why you get the shits a week later?

Option 1
1. access a google settings page
2. click check box that says, "i am using a screen reader"
3. google reports the number of users that access your site that have opted in

Option 2
1. screen readers offer the option to modify the browser string
2. report browser string to server logs/google
3. count the browser strings with screen readers in the logs or read google's stats

Yup, there is an education issue with #1 and an implementing issue with #2. People are going to be miss counted. That can be compensated for.

You may assist by educating people for #1, implementing for #2, or coming up with a much better idea for #3.

Hence opt-in. Users that wanted to identify themselves could state that they are using a screen reader and Google just reports to the site that the user claims to use a screen reader.

<sarcasm>Yes, the world is an awful place for the able-bodied. Have you kicked your orphan today?</sarcasm>

I would support an opt-in feature that allowed Google Analytics to report that statistic to websites visited by the blind.

Flash is accessible if you do it right.

I'm happy to deal with a trivial "annoyance" like a beeping cross walk if it grants access access to the blind. I also didn't realize that visual imparment was around 2.6%. I presumed it was much smaller. Wikipedia states total blindness is at ~0.26%, but even so, it is a significantly large percentage to just let the crosswalk beepers beep.

Agreed. It doesn't matter if you think gays were born that way or it is a choice. It doesn't matter if you agree like or despise the gay population. No matter what, gays deserve equal protection under the law.

If I had mod points, you would get some!

I have said this for years. It forces people to learn to use CSS properly in order to be 508 compliant. It also has the benefit of (hopefully) weeding out so many of the "programmers" that give web programming a bad name. If a company has to legally make a site 508 compliant, then we won't have all of these horrendous websites that only work in IE nor will we have the programmers that make them still in the field. Hey! My bank! I'm looking at you!!!!

Of course, I'm sure that the legislation will be fubar somehow...

What did it cost to punch Blago in the face?

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Could you please list what products do this? Is there a solution for this for OSX/OSX Server?

i get the feeling that you just ruined a movie that i was planning to see for me, didn't you?

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I discovered that here in Champaign, IL USA that landlords that just enter your apartment with no notice, and even without knocking basically have no repercussion. My lease states that they have to give 24 hours notice, but entering my apartment to "chat" (I think that the person was thinking that no one was home wanted to steal a few valuables) with me while I'm not even clothed isn't enough to do anything in criminal nor civil court. Avoid JSM Apartments in Champaign for all you future University of Illinois students!

You're my new friend. Is there a lawyer that could comment on the authorization aspect of playing a DVD?