I agree completely with the above need.  We should all have a short email
ready for these situations.

Included in such an email
we should have one or two URLs, where the webmaster can look for more
information.

If someone puts such an email together, please circulate it to the list.
I have been meaning to do this for a long time but haven't had a chance
yet.

Fernando

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Peter Seymour wrote:

> I believe that my question relates to the posting below.
>
> When I come across a website that is difficult to read, and I would like
> to let the webmaster know how to make it more accessible, what is the best
> thing that I can tell that webmaster?
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> I would like to make a boiler plate message that I can quickly upload and
> forward to a webmaster who might be interested in improving his site.
>
> I am looking for a concise instruction, about three sentences. For
> example:
>
> I am visually impaired and us an electronic voice to read text on my
> computer. Recently, I visited your website and found it to be difficult to
> read. This is a problem that, fortunately, is pretty easy for you to fix.
>
> Simply (here would be the brief text about what to do).
>
> If we all could have a copy of the above posting, we could easily prod
> webmasters to make changes, wherever we find them on the Internet.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Peter Seymour
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Peter Verhoeven 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)
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