target is being sued with good cause and that's a class action suit. yahoo puts captta's up which block some of the membership options on some of its email group pages. That's why the alternate text strategy is so useful on yahoo. That page and it's not the only one requires javascript be operational on any connecting computer. google on Igoogle pages behaves very badly without javascript. Some of that behavior actually denies/blocks accessibility. usajobs.gov is another bad site even with windows and the latest browsing software. All kinds of click here on it and images with here as labels. Why it is O.P.M. hasn't pulled the plug on monster.com and closed that site down given their accessibility mandates is beyond me to answer. If you set up an account on that site and go to the login site and sign in then you're going to run into the mess. The only thing a browser and accessibility equipment gets you is an invation to the torture session.
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Travis Siegel wrote:
Ok, now I'm confused.Assuming a web page is built properly, and assuming folks have a screen reader, doesn't that already make the service accessible to the blind?What is this special version that is usable for the blind?This isn't a bad thing on the surface, but it kind of sends the wrong message. It seems to indicate that blind users require a special version of *any* web site in order to use it. We all know this is *not* the case, but folks who don't know better may draw this conclusion. Someone who has tried this service, please fill us in on what yahoo has done to make this service so-called accessible to the blind. I myself refuse to use yahoo for anything, so somebody else will need to report on this, since I won't.Please let us know what the deal is here. On Dec 1, 2007, at 8:04 AM, MaryLee Perkins wrote:Here is the text from a Nov 22 article. I'm going to get my students to try it.MLP Yahoo! Mail for visually impaired users Posted Nov 22nd 2007 5:00PM by Chris Gilmer Filed under: Business, Developer, Internet, E-mail, Yahoo!Yahoo! has added a new feature to Yahoo! Mail that will make the webmail application more accessible to visually impared users.Yahoo!'s R&D team in India has been developing Yahoo! Mail Classic to be accessible to everyone. The new developments include visually impaired access to mail on all standard screen readers with text to speech, sound icons and special Braille output.Yahoo! has a team of accessibility experts that ensure their products benefit all users with disabilities which is expected from a company their size. However, where is Google? Are they working on a version of Gmail for the visually impaired? People out there are interested. IBM has been working on a special web browser for the visually impaired under the code name A-Browser.=Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverUsers can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
