If you are interested in seeing some of what they do, go to the EBN Artist page on Launch. I have their audio CD and can help you find the videos off of it also.
I've recomposed this response three times already. I'll avoid the banter and examples that will only result in flamebait.
Simply put, saying that all anime are these and other terms is like saying that all American movies rely exclusively on explosions and clevage to get by. Many do, but many more do not and are actually have plot.
Tell your friends to pick up Grave of the Fireflies. I don't think there are any tied-up women in that one.;-)
(Hey, please don't mod me down -- I can't filter through all 400+ posts to see if this is redundent. Sorry in advance)
So my question is simple. How much would the cable companies need to charge to go completly commercialless, still make a reasonable profit and pay the carrying fees to TV networks? How much is one person willing to pay a month?
Okay, it's a stupid question. I already pay $55 a month -- which is $20 more than I ever wanted to. But I live half way between 4 cities and am not close enough to any of them to get good reception. Plus I need my geek TV shows.:-)
The issue of accessibility to many is not an issue of financial prudence or business sense. Granted, I'll agree with you. At some levels, I really don't care what businesses do with their resources. If they don't want my business, that's fine -- I'll gladly take it somewhere else.
(Get's on soapbox) The real issue to me is akin to that of racial discrimination or prejudice. Blind people are a minority just as others are. We have our own in and out groups, we have our own slang, we relate to others like ourselves, we do things a special way. When cultural or racial groups are ignored and disregarded, they stand up because they are humans just like anyone else.
To recount back to my thoughts on the first/. story announcing this case, I didn't totally agree with the person who filed the suit because of what I can only assume was his reasoning. However, I know why he did it... We don't want to be ignored because of business problems or decisions. If businesses ignored every German-American in this country, that would be called prejudice and racist. But they aren't. They're ignoring us. I feel that we have the right to fight for our independence in life. I also feel that we have the right to ask and protest that businesses and others at least remember that we're here.
(gets down from soapbox.) So, I agree that the decision of the company to design their site is their business. However, I also think it's reasonable for people to demand being included. Depending on how far the people of this country want to take it, it could very well deserve to be a legal one.
I understand where your coming from, but as a legally blind person who usees adaptive technologies -- I don't want anyone deciding how and if I use the web.
If you go to http://bobby.cast.org and enter http://www.southwestairlines.com into the form field, we will find the current problems on their home page.
Their results
Priority 1 problems (Fix these absolutely necessary things. Everyone should do these things"
Provide alternate text for images (44 instances)
* The rule of thumb is that if your image is useless and unimportant, put a space as the alt text.
Priority 1 user checks (things that cant be checked by Bobby)
If you can't make your page accessible, make an alternate version -- so make a simple clean text only page
Provide alternate content for each SCRIPT that conveys important information or functionality.
If you use color to convey important info, find another way to do so
If this is a data table (it's not) identify headers
If images are really important, use an extended description
If (a data) table has two or more headers, mark them up additionally.
Identify the document's language
Use simple and straight-forward language.
Now, this is what they must comply with to meet the bare minimum accessibility guideline.
The scripts on this page are unimportant and provide no information -- hence no noscript tag. Add alt=" " to all of the spacer images. They have no data tables, they're all for layout. To identify the language of the document, all they need to do is specify body lang="en"... that's it. (They might need to add span lang="es" for the "Haz clic aqui" button.)
That's one page down. Forms are a little harder, but I do not see a single thing that would cause undue stress or harm to their web team. So they made a mistake and didn't do some basic things -- that's okay. So here's what's wrong guys -- just fix it already.
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...Chicagoland, huh? ;)
If you are interested in seeing some of what they do, go to the EBN Artist page on Launch. I have their audio CD and can help you find the videos off of it also.
I've recomposed this response three times already. I'll avoid the banter and examples that will only result in flamebait.
;-)
Simply put, saying that all anime are these and other terms is like saying that all American movies rely exclusively on explosions and clevage to get by. Many do, but many more do not and are actually have plot.
Tell your friends to pick up Grave of the Fireflies. I don't think there are any tied-up women in that one.
(Hey, please don't mod me down -- I can't filter through all 400+ posts to see if this is redundent. Sorry in advance)
So my question is simple. How much would the cable companies need to charge to go completly commercialless, still make a reasonable profit and pay the carrying fees to TV networks? How much is one person willing to pay a month?
Okay, it's a stupid question. I already pay $55 a month -- which is $20 more than I ever wanted to. But I live half way between 4 cities and am not close enough to any of them to get good reception. Plus I need my geek TV shows. :-)
The issue of accessibility to many is not an issue of financial prudence or business sense. Granted, I'll agree with you. At some levels, I really don't care what businesses do with their resources. If they don't want my business, that's fine -- I'll gladly take it somewhere else.
(Get's on soapbox) The real issue to me is akin to that of racial discrimination or prejudice. Blind people are a minority just as others are. We have our own in and out groups, we have our own slang, we relate to others like ourselves, we do things a special way. When cultural or racial groups are ignored and disregarded, they stand up because they are humans just like anyone else.
To recount back to my thoughts on the first /. story announcing this case, I didn't totally agree with the person who filed the suit because of what I can only assume was his reasoning. However, I know why he did it... We don't want to be ignored because of business problems or decisions. If businesses ignored every German-American in this country, that would be called prejudice and racist. But they aren't. They're ignoring us. I feel that we have the right to fight for our independence in life. I also feel that we have the right to ask and protest that businesses and others at least remember that we're here.
(gets down from soapbox.) So, I agree that the decision of the company to design their site is their business. However, I also think it's reasonable for people to demand being included. Depending on how far the people of this country want to take it, it could very well deserve to be a legal one.
I understand where your coming from, but as a legally blind person who usees adaptive technologies -- I don't want anyone deciding how and if I use the web.
Speaking of Bobby...
If you go to http://bobby.cast.org and enter http://www.southwestairlines.com into the form field, we will find the current problems on their home page.
Their results Priority 1 problems (Fix these absolutely necessary things. Everyone should do these things"
* The rule of thumb is that if your image is useless and unimportant, put a space as the alt text.
Priority 1 user checks (things that cant be checked by Bobby)
Now, this is what they must comply with to meet the bare minimum accessibility guideline.
The scripts on this page are unimportant and provide no information -- hence no noscript tag. Add alt=" " to all of the spacer images. They have no data tables, they're all for layout. To identify the language of the document, all they need to do is specify body lang="en" ... that's it. (They might need to add span lang="es" for the "Haz clic aqui" button.)
That's one page down. Forms are a little harder, but I do not see a single thing that would cause undue stress or harm to their web team. So they made a mistake and didn't do some basic things -- that's okay. So here's what's wrong guys -- just fix it already.