[wila]

That is indeed a very good idea.

I have been blind in the past for months due to an accident when I was a kid. Fortunately I was lucky enough that a brilliant professor was able to restore partial eye sight. Enough for me to be independent and to be a software developer by profession and traveling the world whenever I get a chance.

One of the things I found out was that it is very hard to explain to people to tell them what it is like to not see. One of the popular questions was "So what could you see?" Don't get that question often these day, but I generally asked them to think at how much they can see with their hands.

When you can't even imagine how it is like, going that one step further on imagining how blind people are able to navigate your application/web site is a step beyond even that. Right now you only have things like web accessibility standards and tests for that. It helps, but it is not the same as "navigating the app like a blind person".

If there's an easy way to test and experience your app/website then it will also be easier to get a requirement like that past a C-level exec.

Sorry that I don't have much to add at this stage as I'm in the middle of starting up a new product myself, but you are always welcome to contact me (contact info is in the profile)