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?

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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