Hi Alan,

I contacted Fred, at least I think it was Fred, about QRZ accessibility, but
I let it go cold.  I agree that lookup is straight-forward, if you have an
account, but accessing your own account setting is very hard with
Window-Eyes.  Also, there could be the use of Headings, to allow a blind
person to navigate QRZ more easily.  When Fred had not come across the use
of HTML Headings, this is when I turned my attention to other things that
cropped up.  Perhaps time for a revisit.

Best wishes, Kelvin Marsh - M0AID

Working to improve accessibility for radio amateurs with disabilities

www.active-elements.org

For accessibility evaluations of amateur equipment and MP3 manuals


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Alan R. Downing
Sent: 23 August 2013 19:38
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: QRZ.com

This is somewhat curious Jim.  Fred Lloyd is a friend of mine, and I will
ask him if he has gotten many complaints from blind hams attempting to
lookup callsigns on qrz.com.

Alan

Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Jim Gammon
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:28 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: QRZ.com

Hi Alan, I also use WindowEyes and have experienced a lot of 
difficulty with qrz.com If there's another site that works well, 
I would just as soon use it.  Jim WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan R.  Downing" <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:22:43 -0700
Subject: Re: QRZ.com

Hello Tom, I use qrz.com all the time and don't have any 
difficulty looking
callsigns up.  I can't imagine why you would be having difficulty 
looking
callsigns up.  I use Window Eyes, but I wouldn't think that JAWS 
users would
have problems there.

Best 73


Alan R.  Downing
Phoenix, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators 
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Tom Behler
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:58 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: QRZ.com

Hi, everyone.

I was just looking up a call on qrz.com, and was dismayed to find 
the search

function and resultant information for a given call is less 
accessible than
it has ever been.

It does not seem as easy to get to the QRZ look-up as it once 
was, and even
when there, it is more difficult to access different pieces of 
information
for a given call sign.

I know that wm7d has been suggested as another alternative, and 
may now
start using that web site exclusively for call sign lookups.

Has anyone had similar recent experience with qrz.com??

I am using Jaws 13 and Windows XP on this particular computer.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ



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