Excellent idea. I keep forgetting about the mobile sites. I couldn't find
a link on the HBO site, but just tried to put m. in front of the web
address, and there it was! So check out m.hbo.com.
Julie Adkins, MA, CVRT
Julie Adkins, MA, CVRT
Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist
Metrolina Association for the Blind
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Ted's note (seen below) reminds me of two ways around the problem Lisa
raises.
(1) See if the unusable website has a mobile site. This, of course, will
not have flash and may, for some screen users, present a display which
might be easier to use.
(2) Another possible work around is using Skweezer at
www.skweezer.com
Skweezer is a service which attempts to take a supplied url and present a
display friendly to mobile devices. Sometimes this works, other times it
doesn't. It has made life easier for me on several occasions so it may be
worth a try in such instances.
If you are to have peace with God, there must be war with Satan.
Charles H. Spurgeon, 19th Century British evangelist
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, ted chittenden wrote:
> While blind people are a small minority whose views are often ignored on
issues like this, making the entire website only available in Flash actually
offends a much larger (and growing) crowd that I'm sure HBO would love to
attract; namely, those who use iPads and iPhones. Steve Jobs has made it
clear that he has absolutely no intention of making his phones
flash-compatible any time in the near future, and I therefore think that one
good way to get sites to change their modus operandi would be to enlist the
aid of those who use iPhones and iPods to surf the web.
>
> Ted
> ---- Tom Lange <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > You wrote:
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> > I have the feeling the HBO site is done in Flash. Jaws didn't find
anything on the page for me, and when I hit the context key, I noticed that
among the usual options were things like, play, loop, fast forward, and
rewind.
> >
> > Yep, this is what I found when I visited the site as well. It's
obvious that the site builder had no frickin' clue about accessibility for
screen readers, and that kind of stuff just ticks me off beyond belief. If I
ever ran into its web developer I'd smack him. Shame, shame!
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> >
> > Tom
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