Thought this might interest some of you.

Peter

>Date:         Sat, 6 Mar 1999 15:20:59 -0500
>Reply-To: Shannon Heisey <[log in to unmask]>
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>From: Shannon Heisey <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      Fw:      accessibility on onelist
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>I really thought this was interesting. I've tried to go to onelist and it's
>really become a pain to get around. I really think we should suggest to
>Onelist that they put the alt tags back so each link will have text
>associated with it.
>Shannon and Winsome
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Klaus <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 9:04 PM
>Subject: accessibility on onelist
>
>
>>Hi everybody,  I am writing to everybody that I can to get all blind people
>>and sighted people that know blind people to join together in a very
>>important quest.  Lets show people that We can join together for a good
>>cause.  recently onelist upgraded their site.  In doing so they made it so
>>it is not as speach friendly.  They took out the alt tags that were  behind
>>the icons.  What the alt tags did for speach users was when you would tab
>>from one link to another the speach would read what that link goes to.  Now
>>all you hear is "click here"  This makes it very hard to get around the
>>site.  What you have to do is root up your reading cursor and read each
>>thing you land on.  This takes about three times longer to move threw a
>>page.  What I am asking everybody! to do is to go to the onelist site and
>>then find the sujestionsbox and tell them that we want the alt tags back!
>>Their may be a way to just do it by mail but I don't know the address yet.
>>If anyone knows please let us know ASAP.  This is our chance to stand up as
>>one and get something done that can affect all blind people.  Alot of us
>use
>>onelist to get mailing lists and some of us have never heard of it.  but
>>even if you don't use onelist please help us out! Yes even all of you that
>>are lerkers!
>>
>>Tom and guide dog Ryan
>>Ryan the totally trippendicular casanova
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>>KB3DBL clear and on the side.
>>
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