[access-uk] Re: Website preferences

  • From: "Richard Godfrey-McKay" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:12:21 -0000

Option c, every time.   


Richard Godfrey-McKay

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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Colin Fowler
Sent: 09 March 2011 07:33
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Website preferences

It has to be option C always! BS8878 underpins that and you should be
supporting BS8878.


Colin Fowler


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Egan, Bim" <Bim.Egan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 7:29 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Website preferences


> Hi,
>
> Apologies if you see this on other lists ...
>
> My name's Bim Egan, I'm the technical lead for RNIB's web access team.
> Web designers sometimes look to RNIB for guidance on what sight-impaired
> people need to make a site accessible.  Though we have no power to
> insist that they take our advice, we want to make sure that what we say
> is right for  you and others .
>
> Could you help us please, by saying which of the following three options
> (A, B or C) would be more likely to suit your needs?
>
> A.  a text-only site, mirroring the main site with all its features; or
>
> B.  A separate, simplified site made easier for sight-impaired people,
> but with the risk of missing out on some of the features on the main
> site; or
>
> Option C: If it's possible, one website that is accessible for everyone,
> sighted and unsighted.
>
> Option B could mean extra cost for web designers, which they may not
> like to incur.  On the other hand some people who work entirely from the
> keyboard tell us that Options A and C can mean far too many key strokes
> for them.
>
> Question:  Would it be a good idea for RNIB, as policy, to encourage
> designers of the more popular or important sites  for independent
> living, (grocery sites for example) to produce an option B version?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bim
>
>
>
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