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  1. Dad! Full Accessibility review here! by Kalvos · · Score: 1 · on Review of the Presidential Web Sites' HTML

    Hi all,

    We released our report on the candidates' sites on December 9. The Associated Press picked it up, but also not Slashdot! We updated it a month later.

    For a more comprehensive accessibility report than Dad's, check here: http://orbitaccess.com/presidential/

    Dennis

  2. Re:But we want it to look good, right? by Kalvos · · Score: 1 · on Corporate Websites and the Lack of Accessibility

    If anyone wants to check it, do it.

    I did. It is fine with the ALT tags, and works in Lynx as well as IBM Home Page Reader (which also switches to Spanish on the subsequent text pages).

    Dennis

    http://orbitaccess.com/presidential/

  3. Re:ALT tags have problems though ... by Kalvos · · Score: 1 · on Corporate Websites and the Lack of Accessibility

    We had the same problem back a while ago when making a site for kids, where we had ALT tags on the graphics, but the tags popping up when on the menu text, ended up hiding the actual roll-over text that we were putting in an adjacent image.

    Huh? If you had done your design homework to start with you would have (1) known this and (2) not put important information in rollovers anyway.

    So you put in "d" links instead, right? Right?

    The excuses are gettin' pretty deep around here.

    Dennis

    http://orbitaccess.com/presidential/

  4. Re:Easy Test for Accessibily: TURN OFF YOUR MONITO by Kalvos · · Score: 1 · on Corporate Websites and the Lack of Accessibility

    went out and got the IBM HomePage Reader

    Well done. That's one of our first accessibility tests ... in fact, I started doing accessibility testing when blind and deaf users started complaining about my Kalvos & Damian site. We hardly miss an ALT now and are transcribing our interviews as fast as we can!

    Dennis

    http://orbitaccess.com/presidential/

  5. Re:Technological, not legal solutions! by Kalvos · · Score: 1 · on Corporate Websites and the Lack of Accessibility

    The Coward sez: I'm sorry, the burden is on the user. I'm not going to dumb-down the graphics on my sites for anyone!

    Dumb-down, eh? I'd like to poke your eyes out. Go try browsing blind. Download a nice speech browser like IBM Home Page Reader and go to one of these sites. Find your way around. No wonder laws are needed. "Dumb-down". The pits of bigotry.

    Dennis

    http://orbitaccess.com/presidential/

  6. Yeah, the presidential candidates, too. by Kalvos · · Score: 1 · on Corporate Websites and the Lack of Accessibility

    We did the first of our accessibility 'white papers' on the presidential candidate sites. Nobody passed nuthin! (And didn't care when we contacted them. Vote for nobody?)

    http://orbitaccess.com/presidential/

    Dennis