Well, it's not all that surprising. In my experience, the sighted
volunteers who run talking newspapers are very nice, well meaning people,
who although they provide a service for vips, really haven't a clue as to
our needs.
Ted
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From: "Jonathan" <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 2:01 PM
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Oh dear.
Alexander Shannon wrote:
As Jonathan hasn't as yet come back to the list with an answer to your
message...
End quote.
Sorry, I missed that one. The yes and no are selections you can make
to a question.
For example, one question is:
"Do you find it easy to navigate this website?".
I think it makes my point rather well, which is that why on earth
would a site, ostensibly for the visually impaired, make a form which
couldn't be answered by screen-reader users asking whether they could
use the site?!?
I think it's been designed to be self-selecting; if you can see the
question, presumably you can use the site, and can answer "yes". By
hiding the question from VI users, who would invariably answer "no",
they can then show the results of a survey going "95% of our users
found the site easy to navigate".
This, along with the use of the "Valid XHTML" button on a site with 12
validation errors on that one page alone, is why designers of truly
accessible sites get a little frustrated at times.
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