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I have quite a few blind readers to my website at http://www.confessionsoftheprofessions.com. I'm not sure if they came before or after I made the decision when starting the website to write out every single infographic in detail with a text-friendly version. It takes me an extra 10-20 minutes, depending on the length of the infographic, when I'm processing my articles, but it has its advantages for both readers and SEO.

It was actually unintentional when I started doing it and I had only done it with search engines in mind, because they can't read infographics, and I wanted them to be able to categorize the article better. Turns out, there are hundreds to thousands of people who also can't read infographics.

The side effect was that it began attracting a good amount of people who just need everything written out for good reason. Not just the blind, but I have gotten emails from non-blind people who are autistic, dyslexic, or just have trouble reading who use e-readers both on computer and mobile devices thanking me for doing it.

Highly recommended for everyone to start taking the handicapped into mind when it comes to the Internet. EVERYONE is using the Internet. Handicapped, blind.. they aren't just sitting there twittling their thumbs. They are searching the Internet!




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