Accessibility

I notice your site has a date of 2002.  Is there still any kind of
accessibility initiative happening? It's needed now more than ever!
(How many , um, ... ...'cookies'... are really needed?)
   If a site's functioning is enhanced by ...'cookies' they should be
explicitly loaded by the user.
   E-mail should NEVER "make the computer try to connect" unless explicitly
directed by the user (by, say, clicking on a clearly designated link)! There
are NO exceptions to this! NONE!
  These two elements form the core of the accessibility issue for a huge
number of internet users.   I am a head injury survivor who can't afford to
have all the newest programs, and who is slow sorting through things and
dealing with unsolicited e-mail that tries to connect upon opening
(pernicious e-mail), perhaps to confirm the validity of my e-mail address.
This totally wastes my precious extra time, which my disability leaves me
with so little of? (there seems to be no way to turn this off, in my, uh,
"proletariat's e-mail program").
   I was so happy to see that there is someone thinking about these issues,
but I am worried by the date shown on my browser.. (maybe that's not that
much to worry about- a site SHOULDN'T have to be ...'updated'..., for any
kind of technical reasons- just for content- but then again, there IS
content I am interested in here- as my opening question indicates!
      Please let me know where we are in the fight for accessibility, and
what can be done (letters to be sent or legislation to push for)
   The easy issues first.  (eliminate unrequested ...'cookies'.... prohibit
unsolicited pernicious mail, etcetera).
  Then more complicated issues can be addressed.  (once we have something in
standard plain test, though, there are programs that can read it, etc.  The
affordability of these may, however, be an issue.)
     
Sincerely,
Dave Streater, (New York)

Received on Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:43:11 UTC