Re: explaining to someone how to make their website accessible
- From: "Richard Sherman" <squirman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "JFW Discussion List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:17:22 -0700
Hi Troy,
Glad to see you have resolved your dilemma. For future reference there is a
great resource for this kind of information. It is called the World Wide Web
Consortium and it can be found at
http://www.w3.org/
They have a page called Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) which can be
found at
http://www.w3.org/WAI
WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to
people with disabilities
What WAI Does
WAI develops...
. guidelines widely regarded as the international standard for Web
accessibility
. support materials to help understand and implement Web accessibility
. resources, through international collaboration
Some of their technical reports can be found at
http://www.w3.org/TR/.
The latest thing they have been working on is Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0 which can be read at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/
I hope this is helpful to anyone on relaying information on how to make
websites more accessible.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: Troy Burnham
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 2:04 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 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
Other related posts:
