RE: explaining to someone how to make their website accessible

  • From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:30:49 +0100

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 13:21 -1000, Milton M. Ota wrote:
> This list box requires that you hold the alt key down and pressing the
> down arrow key symoltaniously. If you arrow down quickly it doesn't
> throw you out. Because it is a long list, after the first time you use
> the alt key plus the down arrow, you can then press the first letter of
> a word like b and it will jump you to the start of the b's.
> 
> There is nothing wrong with the way the site is designed.

I think you'll find those with JavaScript enabled are experiencing the
site differently, as as soon as you select anything in the select box it
tries to load a new page.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Troy Burnham
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 11:04 AM
> To: jfw
> Subject: explaining to someone how to make their website accessible
> 
> Hi All,
> I sent a message the other day about some list boxes on a website where 
> every time that I turned forms mode on and tried to arrow through the
> list 
> box I'd get kicked out of forms mode immediately.  A couple of others 
> confirmed that the same thing happened to them and suggested that I
> contact 
> the webmaster of the site, but my question is how do I explain what the 
> problem is in a way that a sighted person will understand, and what 
> suggestions do I make to fix the problem?
> 
> Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.  The web site is 
> http://www.southeasttexas.com/classifieds/ and they must have changed 
> something fairly recently because at one time I didn't have this
> problem.
> Troy
> 
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