RE: not jaws, just inaccessible:Fw: Inaccessible Web sites

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Wendy Fraser wrote:

> I may have jumped the gun a little here and not seen what your exact
> requirements were.  Maybe we are both looking for different things.  
> 
> In the Creating Accessible Web Sites course we compare the site in both
> a visual browser and Lynx to ensure you are receiving the same

this is more a question than an answer,  I have heard but haven't checked
that Lynx behaves differently and presents more or less information
depending on where it is loaded...in other words a computer running on a
purely text OS (MSDOS or Linux in term mode) vs a GUI computer OS
running Lynx on top of a system like Windoz...


Bob

> information.  We test to see if the "alt" attributes in the images are
> appropriate and convey the proper information.  If tables are used for
> layout with spacer graphics, do the spacer graphics for the proper "alt"
> attribute {alt=""}.  We do listen to hear how the page is spoken (for
> example on the CBC site the link to "full story" has spaces between each
> letter and is in uppercase, likely to be spoken F  U   L  L ...).  Is
> the site in scalable text..  We check to ensure that if you had a
> mobility problem could you activate the main and side navigation with
> ease.  Can you make the clickable area larger?  Do the text links make
> sense when taken out of context?  For example most news sites will have
> a large number of links "Full Story" when hearing a list of the links
> that are available on any page.
> 
> Does the site use forms?  Do they use radio buttons?  Can you activate
> the search function?
> 
> I hope this helps clarify why I listed the sites in my previous email.
> I personal feel that the news sites are missing a huge audience as their
> web sites are not very accessible, and in most cases information is
> missing (when viewing in Lynx).  I also realized the audience they are
> excluding was never part of their target audience prior to the WWW.
> 
> I really enjoy this list and refer to many of you (generally, not my
> name) in my courses concerning accessibility.  
> 
> Wendy Fraser
> Instructor
> Internet Institute
> 
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> Subject: RE: not jaws, just inaccessible:Fw: Inaccessible Web sites
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Wendy Fraser wrote:
> 
> visiting using Lynx running on a Linux box 
> 
> > Examples I use in my Creating Accessible Web Sites course are any news
> 
> > sites.  Some really good examples (although they are Canadian) are
> > www.canada.com/ottawa,    Good
> > www.cbc.ca,               Surely you jest....bad not impossible but
> bad
> > www.canada.com            Good
> 
> Bob
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