I think that this is a great idea.
Edwin



On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Peter Seymour wrote:

> I believe that my question relates to the posting below.
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> 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.
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> I am looking for a concise instruction, about three sentences. For
> example:
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> 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.
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> Simply (here would be the brief text about what to do).
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> 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.
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> Thank you.
>
> Peter Seymour
>
> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Peter Verhoeven wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > 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?
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> > 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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