[stylist] Poem: Blue Button

[Bill Outman]

Here is a poem I wrote tonight that was inspired by a blind friend's
experience with an inaccessible web form with a blue button that could not
be accessed in order to complete it.  I am writing as if in her voice, but
any of uswithout sufficient vision to interpret a computer screen would run
into this problem.  

 

Any comments are welcome.  

 

Bill Outman 

 

Blue Button 

 

When I came to a web form 

I wished only I had proper access.  

If to its requirements I could conform 

I could achieve full success.  

 

You tell me to click the button that's blue 

I reply I simply cannot see, what can I say?  

And without physical vision I see no hue 

No matter if green, orange or gray.  

 

I am left wondering what to do. 

For with the computer voice it cannot be read 

I'm left feeling very blue, 

And it's enough to make me see red 

 

If I could sense the color by touch, 

Or if it only had the proper tag 

It would help so very much

So that the job would be in the bag 

 

So to all I would implore 

To institute the correct fix. 

Such an act I would adore, 

For then I would be fully in the mix. 

 

 



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