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I don't know, I found the audio combined with the text & images incredibly engaging, although I did wish for a visual cue from time to when I lost my place (I was reading in sync, but got distracted).

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Perhaps it worked better on your browser, but the content was so delayed that many times I scrolled past it before it decided to load. So I was constantly having to scroll back and forth to try to figure out whether a blank spot was truly blank (sometimes it was). Pretty frustrating. And the irony is almost too much...

There's a big button in the upper right hand corner for an audio version, ya dingus. Ever thought that might be useful for people who can't read the website?

I can read perfectly well. But if the web site I'm looking at is so badly designed that it's unreadable, why should I expect that an audio version will be better thought out?

There are perfectly good reasons for providing audio content on a web site, but having a badly designed site isn't one of them.

I think he GP was referring to visually impaired people, per the post they were responding to (about the "irony", etc.).

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