As you know, sometimes a webb site which is totally inaccessible with one
webb browser is more accessable with another.  (For instance some sites are
more accessable with Netscape and some with Internet Explorer and visa
versa.)  Please let us know which webb browser you are using and if you
tried to access the site with a variety of webb browsers please let us know
what results you had with each.  Also, specifically, what do you mean by
"inaccessable".  In other words, what keys did you press in your
application which usually get you results and which did not in this case?
Thanks.  This kind of information is what we as blind users need to have
for us to get a better handle on accessability issues.  Any help you can
give in debugging the problem will be appreciated by us all I am sure.

Elizabeth Aldworth

p.s.  Please include the version of the browser you are using and the
speech package you are using the access the webb.  Again this information
is useful in determining accessability issues as you know.  I have also
forwarded your concern about AFB having to do with this site to the
technology center at AFB. At 03:57 AM 10/2/98 , you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Today I visit the homepage of "Toys for children who are blind or visually
>impaired". After loading this page I got tears my visually impaired eyes.
>Not because I was glad that such important information for the kids and
>their parent was on the web, but because of because the pages are not
>accessible!
>The tears in my eyes changes to a real river after I read that the American
>Foundation of the Blind has to do something with this website.
>It is not my daily job to visit websites and analyse them to see if they
>are accessible. But I'm doing this on a volunteerly base. I try to give
>people information about how they can make their webpages more accessible
>for everybody. I do this on my The Screen Magnifiers Homepage, that has a
>special Accessibility corner and I do that as co-editor of a Dutch e-zine
>about accessibility.
>I can understand that a lot of webpages on the Internet are not accessible
>because the webmaster have not the knowledge about accessibility. But I can
>not understand, that a website created on the subject of toys for people
>who are blind or visually impaired can be so inaccessible and I can not
>understand that a blind organisation like the American Foundation for the
>Blind can agree with such an inaccessible website?
>It seems to me that the American Foundation for the Blind has no idea what
>the problems are for visually impaired people regarding access to the
>Internet.
>
>What is wrong with this website?
>
>If you disable your browser loading images or use a text-oriented browser
>like Lynx or Net-Tamer you only see IMAGE IMAGE IMAGE in the menu.
>They "forget" to use ALT tags with that images. I think it takes 15 minutes
>to make this website accessible. I could not find an E-Mail address for
>feedback.
>
>If somebody knows who is responsible for this website? Please forwared them
>this message.
>You can find the website at:
>   http://www.toy-tma.com/PUBLICATIONS/guide97/index.html
>
>
>Regards Peter Verhoeven
>Internet http://www.plex.nl/~pverhoe (The Screen Magnifiers Homepage)
>