- From: Robert B. Yonaitis <ryonaitis@hisoftware.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:48:27 -0400
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <000001c33c13$8853e2f0$010010ac@Q45>
Hello All, We had a user of the CynthiaSays.com tester ask us an interesting question. The user asked us if when running CynthiaSyas could the tell the tester to ignore some specific lines even though they were not accessible! Upon further research we found the errors were caused by their host. The host included Advertising at the top of every page, say, Line 10-20 of the code. It was not accessible, and it appeared that there was no effort to make it accessible. We understood the Web Developers request and basically recommended that they: 1. Note it in their accessibility statement 2. Create a Skip Ad Link 3. Notify the host on the importance of making the add accessible (And of course real business reasons) 4. To send a request to the Host to make their ads accessible It would be easy to say get a new host, but this is simply not an option for all developers/web site owners. With this in mind we have made the advanced version of the CynthiaSays.Com tester allow a user to define lines to ignore, so that they can see how they are doing without the constant errors of the ad to confuse things. http://www.cynthiasays.com/fulloptions.asp Now the Question: Has anyone had experiences with getting a host to make these ads accessible? Best Regards, Rob Yonaitis Remember when all validation tools were reserved for local basic content (and some still are)? How quickly you will forget. The AccVerify DS2 System is so advanced that it can differentiate between all content types and scripting on entering any content. Learn more now or Join the beta: http://www.hisoftware.com/betanews/accverify_ds2.htm
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