You can always start out by explaining that you are visually impaired and work on a screen reader designed by Freedom Scientific and what the screen reader does to allow you to "read" a site just like a sighted person. You can then ask your question ex plaining what you mean "by turning on forms mode" etc. Hth, Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Troy Burnham" <homerun@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "jfw" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:04 PM 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 othersconfirmed that the same thing happened to them and suggested that I contactthe 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 -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.comJFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfwIf you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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