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Web site capable of being
surfed by visually impaired
and even blind individuals
has been developed for State
Rep. Marc Shulman, R-39th District.
"It is refreshing to see a legislator
who addresses all of his constituents,
not just the majority," said Barbara
Thomas of West Bloomfield, a
Michigan Commission for the Blind
member.
"Being visually impaired myself, I
am impressed with Rep. Shulman's
desire to address the accessibility issue
for the visually impaired and blind."
"We took my site and repro-
grammed it so that my visually
impaired constituents can keep up
with what's going on in Lansing," said
Shulman of West Bloomfield. His dis-
trict includes Keego HarbOr, the City
of Orchard Lake Village and
Commerce and West Bloomfield
townships.
Urbanideas.com of Royal Oak devel-
oped Shulman's site to be compatible
with a screen-reading software pro-
gram called JAWS, created by Freedom
Scientific of Florida.
Sighted people surf the Web using a
mouse. When those who are blind or
have impaired vision surf the Web and
arrive at a page that interests them,
they use the tab and arrow keys to

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move from one element on the page to
the next.
"That's where JAWS comes in,"
Shulman said. "If the blind or visually
impaired person has JAWS and they
tab to an element on the page, such as
a picture, JAWS will read them a
description that has been pro-
grammed-in on the photograph."
For example, he said, a sighted per-
son may see a photograph of hundreds
of people walking down the street.
"Urbanideas.com would have pro-
grammed the page so that JAWS
would say aloud, 'This is a photograph
of the Martin Luther King Day Walk
down Orchard Lake Road in West
Bloomfield. Hundreds of people
turned out for the walk.'"
Shulman's business cards are in regu-
lar print and Braille, making the Web
site change a natural step to advocating
more for people with disabilities, he
said.
Shulman plans to make JAWS avail-
able through the West Bloomfield
Township Library. Blind or visually
impaired users would be able to access
Shulman's site or any site built in com-
pliance with government regulations
that works with JAWS.
Shulman's Web site can be accessed at
www.mshulman.net

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