Well done Gina on your initiative! Now with regard to your site's accessibility CFIT (NCBI could advise there I reckon. Tony Sweeney ----- Original Message ----- From: Gina McNamara To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 5:20 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Gina Mc Namara's website Thanks Paul I will need to figure out how to do that Best Gina On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:14 PM, (NCBI) Paul Traynor <paul.traynor@xxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Gina, You need to do a lot more work on your website before it is suitable for clearance as an accessibility site. For me none of the links are properly labelled with "alt-text". This is a small piece of HTML code which you add onto the main link address and which when viewed on a web page gives the screen reader user information about that particular link. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gina McNamara Sent: 19 January 2011 11:26 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Gina Mc Namara's website Hi Everyone Check out my new website. www.ginamcnamara.com <http://www.ginamcnamara.com/> There is information relation to disability advocacy, links to audioview and much more. I have just set it up and I need to get feedack as to how accessible it is for people as I want to sort that out too! Regards Gina -- Gina Mc Namara Disability Advocate Email Address: ginamcn@xxxxxxxxx Skype Address: ginamcnamara Website: www.ginamcnamara.com <http://www.ginamcnamara.com/> -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 582 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message NCBI: Celebrating 80 Years ******************************************************************** National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) is a company limited by guarantee (registered in Ireland No. 26293) . Our registered office is at Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. NCBI is also a registered Charity (chy4626). NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ******************************************************************** -- Gina Mc Namara Disability Advocate Email Address: ginamcn@xxxxxxxxx Skype Address: ginamcnamara Website: www.ginamcnamara.com