Re: Request for site review

I went to the main Sailor site with Lynx/32 and with IE 5.01 with
Window-Eyes 3.1.  Attached is a copy of the Microsoft Active Accessibility
buffer which a Window-Eyes user will hear when viewing that page.  Any line
that begins with "link" should act as a link.  One would never know that
there was 29K of stuff associated with this page.  My initial impression
was favorable, generally.

But if you decide to search for something, the picture changes.  The edit
box is easy to find, and it has a good label which Window-Eyes and Lynx can
read properly, in or out of MSAA mode.  But where do you submit your
search?  Am I blind or something?  Guess I'll have to hack into the HTML to
find out why I can't search from the main page, or where one might do a
search from a subpage.  I would   think Sailor's own copy of Lynx won't do
any better, but perhaps it's pointed at a different page?


At 05:05 PM 4/12/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Group,
>
>Please take at look at URL:
>http://www.sailor.lib.md.us/
>and provide me feedback (on or off the list as you see fit).
>
>Maryland's Online Public Information Network has rolled out a "new and
>improved" look to their site.  They are interested in keeping it accessible.
>They use a whole bunch of (text-based) onMouseOver JavaScript.  I have asked
>them to duplicate the onMouseOver content into onFocus tags, but based on
>recent discussion, I don't expect that this currently helps screen readers
>much and I know that it does nothing for Lynx users.  So, where do they add
>the alternative content?  The SCRIPT definition is in the HEAD and NOSCRIPT
>is valid ONLY in BODY!  In Sailor's case, this may not be necessary as the
>sub-heading "pop-up" links duplicate those available by following the main
>heading links.
>
>(1)  What can Sailor do to improve accessibility.
>(2)  Is the site, as is, WCAG P1 compliant or not?  If not, why not?
>(3)  Is their a general technique for making such "pop-up" links accessible?
>(Or does one just ensure that said URLs are replicated elsewhere?)
>--
>Sincerely,
>Bruce Bailey
>webmaster for the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) Division of
>Rehabilitation Services (DORS)
>http://www.dors.state.md.us/
>410/554-9211
>
>

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