Why do I never remember to blog my own column? Sheesh. I could have a FREE blog post every Friday if I alternated between new ones and archive ones — there are more than 200 columns hidden in the archives that many of you have never seen, I’ll betcha.

Talk Dirty, Descriptively in Porn for the Blind

Porn preview sites aren’t known for their usability. You’re familiar with the template, I’m sure. The standard design looks like someone spilled a box of dirty photos across a black laminate floor and then vandalized the result with several colors of primary paint. In all caps. With lots of misspellings and exclamation points!!!

It’s bad enough when you can see it. But what if you have a visual impairment? Your screen-reader software would probably spit out a few choice words and crash out of sheer spite.

Porn for the Blind, a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Mass., was established for the sole purpose of making the millions of free porn clips available online accessible to people with visual impairments.

Continued at Wired

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A few past columns chosen at random:

Hear, Hear for Audio Erotica (October 2005)

Makin’ Woohoo (October 2004)

Lifelong Effects of Cybersex (August 2006)