- From: <Andrew.Arch@visionaustralia.org.au>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:26:10 +1000
- To: burke@ucla.edu
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi Patrick, The section I referred to (animal feeding and interpretation: http://natzoo.si.edu/hilights/animaldemos/index.htm) contains a large amount of information about feeding times and interpretive activities - the catch is that this information is all provided as GIFs (img1.gif & img3.gif) with no alt text or other means of getting to the information except visually! Andrew _________________________________ Dr Andrew Arch Manager, Internet Product Development Vision Australia Foundation Ph 613 9864 9222; Fax 613 9864 9210 Mobile 0438 755 565 http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ Member, Education & Outreach Working Group, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/ Patrick Burke <burke@ucla.e To: Andrew.Arch@visionaustralia.org.au du> cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: RE: Overly Verbose Alt Tags 16/08/01 17:17 At 07:08 PM 8/15/01 , Andrew.Arch@visionaustralia.org.au wrote: > >I think the designer might have been colour blind <grin> ... but did any of >you go to the "animal feeding and interpretation" section? I won't spoil >the surprise, but let you visit the page <frown>! > >Andrew Hmmm, with Jaws I didn't notice anything too unusual. There must be strange visual things going on? For the record, as a person with blindness (non-darkness-impaired reader, etc.) & screen reader user, I did not know that the bullets were actually blue until others pointed it out. I was warning people about the red ones because there are so many of them. I think it's a highpoint of Web comedy that they are in fact blue. For the record, the Jaws "Link List" command (or similar command in other screen readers) let's one navigate easily through the links without the red/blue bullets (although it does not help with the "This is a large navigation button that goes to ..." problem (I paraphrase")). In defense of the National Zoo, I found their questionnaire / feedback form to be very accessible. So we can send our requests for improved ALT tagging fairly easily (though it is tempting to preserve the site as part of a Menagerie of Poor Design Practice). Patrick
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