[access-uk] Re: Website preferences

  • From: Barry Toner <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 09:23:37 +0000

Hi Alan,

Option C hasnt' been implamented on Tescos.  There's too many inconsistency's 
on that site.

Barry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of ALAN THORPE
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 8:16 AM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Website preferences
>
> hello bim
>
> I would like option (c)
>
> but however it does not work as has been proved from the Tesco site
> reasently as well as the rnib site too.
>
> so option (b) or even better as we did get the offers with our screen
> reader
> before it was changed last summer.
>
> just go back to some of the features that were on offer then.
>
> by the way we were using the main site not the separate site.
>
> MANY THANKS
> ALAN THORPE
> TEL 0114 220 7007  07961 406 739
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Egan, Bim" <Bim.Egan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:29 PM
> 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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