Re: Fwd: Accessibility for Morningstar.com

Neat. Next step: Educating her on ADA versus WCAG.

Please point her to:
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility.html
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag

~Shawn


William Loughborough wrote:
> After a minimum of "mining" the Morningstar.com site I got through to
> a "project manager" who is clearly aware of our issues and seems to be
> ready to take both immediate remedial steps and long-term solutions
> during their re-design.
> 
> Hope springs eternal.
> 
> Love.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: CHERRY MANGAT <CHERRY.MANGAT@morningstar.com>
> Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:57 PM
> Subject: Accessibility for Morningstar.com
> To: wloughborough@gmail.com
> Cc: VICTOR SAVOLAINEN <victor.savolainen@morningstar.com>
> 
> 
> Hi William,
> 
> I am one of the project managers for Morningstar.com and I was
> notified that you were having some accessibility issues with our
> website using your screen reader.  I wanted to let you know that we
> are working on a website re-design that will make our site more
> accessible, and we will be looking at the ADA for guidelines.  That is
> a long-term project but in the meantime we can try to address some of
> the specific issues that you are experiencing.
> 
> One issue that you identified was the lack of the alt attribute for
> some of the images.  Are there any other issues that are making it
> difficult for you to use our website?  Please feel free to send me a
> list through e-mail, or if you like I can give you a call to talk
> about the areas that we need to work on.
> 
> Thank you for notifying us of this problem, we appreciate the feedback
> and the opportunity to make the site more useful for you.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Cherry
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> Cherry Mangat
> Project Manager
> Individual Software Group
> 
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