This questions can go up the list that includes ... How can companies who
sell AT NOT make their sites accessible to people with disabilities?
Sheryl
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Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D.
Assistant Director-Information Systems, Computing & Communications
Director, DO-IT; Co-Director, AccessIT; Director, UW ATL
University of Washington, Box 354842
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 543-0622 FAX (206) 221-4171
http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Denis Anson wrote:
> The truly appalling part is that this website is *about* providing equal
> access! How can you reasonably have a site about the difficulty experienced
> by a person with a disability in gaining access to education, and not make
> it accessible? And then to be *snotty* when the inaccessibility is pointed
> out, of a website that talks about hidden barriers is just plain bad!
>
> Denis Anson, MS, OTR
> Computer Access Specialist
> College Misericordia
> 301 Lake St.
> Dallas, PA 18636
> http://danson.misericordia.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: * EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Terri Hedgpeth
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:14 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: In Their Shoes
>
> Hello all,
> I came across a website at this institution that is done with flash and they
> didn't bother making it accessible via keyboard nor did they give any audio
> cues. I emailed to complain and their terse reply stated that I can find a
> text version of this site at an alternate location, however there isn't any
> cue giving the link to this other location. And in their email reply they
> state that this is password protected and they didn't send the link. I don't
> know about you but I feel that separate is not equal particularly in this
> case. Consider they probably received some grant moneys to produce this
> site, the purpose of which is "sensitivity training." And the initial
> location you go to is not password protected though it is only an
> introduction, it isn't accessible. Please check it out and send your opinion
> to:
> Dr. Joy Himmel [log in to unmask]
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> http://www.aa.psu.edu/intheirshoes/
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>
>
> _________________________________
> Terri Hedgpeth
> Disability Specialist .
> Disability Resources for Students
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ 85287-3202
> (480) 965-1232 (v)
> (480) 965-0441 (fax)
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Barrier-free E-learning, Accessible Internet Multimedia and Business Benefits of Accessible IT Design:
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EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi
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