RE: Accessibility of Salt Lake Olympic Site

RE: Accessibility of Salt Lake Olympic SiteMike - I'd be interested to hear
what kind of problems (and which browser) you are experiencing. The script
on this page does look like it is on thin ice, trying to supply something
nice to a browser that supports "JavaScript" and even more to a browser that
supports "javascript1.2" - the case of the names is inconsistent which hints
that there might be cold plunges in store here. Speaking of plunges - the
page offers the following :

Please enable the "frames" setting in your browser's preferences or settings
menu.
Please enable the "scripts" setting in your browser's preferences or
settings menu.

It looks like this page has been designed for (relatively recent) IE and
Netscape, anything else can go swim.
I'd suspect that the automated checkers might be a bit fooled - the page
will probably present something practically acceptable but absolutely
uninformative to a lot of browsers.

Cheers,
Danny.





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  -----Original Message-----
  From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On
Behalf Of Michael R. Burks
  Sent: 26 October 2001 21:35
  To: Denise Wood; WAI IG
  Subject: RE: Accessibility of Salt Lake Olympic Site


  My thoughts on why it wont work are because of the coding of the
scripts....make sense to anyone?

  Sincerely,

  Mike Burks
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Denise Wood [mailto:Denise.Wood@unisa.edu.au]
    Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:09 PM
    To: 'mburks952@worldnet.att.net'; WAI IG
    Subject: RE: Accessibility of Salt Lake Olympic Site




    I checked in IE 5.5, Opera and Lynx. Would not run in Lynx due to
frames. Even though I have QT installed did not play videos in Opera but Ok
in IE. Also requires Flash and Acrobat to access some components on site.

    No captioning in some audio files but does provide text transcripts of
videos set in background screen - if you can manage to read the text which
is placed over a photographic image.

    No obvious problems for 3 types of colour blindness using Vischeck
Photoshop plugin - but major problems with clarity and contrast of text.
Even for a person without a visual impairment some text almost impossible to
read. Graphic text associated with wire mesh images is also vert fuzzy.

    Seemed to work Ok with Windows Eyes screen reader.

    I managed to navigate OK with keyboard.

    No Priority 1 level access problems identified in Bobby.
    4 Priority 2 level problems:
    -As appropriate, use metadata to add computer-understandable information
about the page.
    -Mark up any quotations with the Q and BLOCKQUOTE elements.
    -If scripts create pop-up windows or change the active window, make sure
that the user is aware this is happening. (4 instances)

    -Check that the foreground and background colors contrast sufficiently
with each other.
    1 Priority 3 level problem
    -As appropriate, use metadata to add computer-understandable information
about the page.

    Couldn't get Wave to analyse the site (don't know what was happening
there - appeared to be bounding to another server).

    A-Prompt reported 3 priority 1 level problems and 1 priority level 3
problem on home page.

    W3C HTML Validation Service Reported that the site does not validate as
HTML 4.0 Transitional. Following problems identified:

    -No Character Encoding detected!
    -required attribute "TYPE" not specified
^
    -Error: end tag for element "FRAMESET" which is not open; try removing
the end tag or check for improper nesting of elements

    That's about it. Anyone have the same problems I experienced trying to
analyse this site with Wave? I'd like to know why it wouldn't work for this
site.

    Denise

    Dr Denise L Wood
    Lecturer: Professional Development (online teaching and learning)
    University of South Australia
    CE Campus, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Michael R. Burks [mailto:mburks952@worldnet.att.net]
    Sent: Saturday, 27 October 2001 3:01 AM
    To: WAI IG
    Subject: Accessibility of Salt Lake Olympic Site



    All,

    has anyone checked out the accessibility of http://www.slc2002.org/?

    Sincerely,

    Mike Burks