Hi everyone! I found some information when it comes to those who are sightless (blind -- those who can't see) and when it comes to major issues with accessing websites such as weather.com.
Here's the PDF (Portable Document Format):
http://www.xeroday.com/portfolio/UPA...aper_final.pdf
When I went into weather.com, I was having trouble getting to the temperature part without using a screen. There are a bunch of tables everywhere! Even with just one row and one column! I was trying to jump through headings within a page and with too many headings and tables (even heading level 5!) -- ugh(!), I had to look at the screen just to get an hour-by-hour forecast. Hitting the "t" key for table does not take me there! I had to press the down arrow key just to get out of the mess of nested tables.
Anyway, the screen reader I use to browse through the Internet using my netbook and virtual machine is called Orca (
Orca - GNOME Live!). Anybody who is interested in trying out Orca can download Ubuntu from Ubuntu.com, which came with Orca. Orca is free for Linux (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Slackware, etc.) compared to JAWS (
Freedom Scientific - JAWS for Windows Screen Reading Software) for Windows. If you don't want to dual-boot, you can use VirtualBox (
VirtualBox).
By the way, I thought I'd start a thread in here, since it's related to the challenge of how the websites are designed.