[Mael-list] Website
Anne Hutchins
ahutchns at cox.net
Thu Jan 31 00:31:05 PST 2008
That's why I ALWAYS add descriptive alt tags to every graphic/image on
a website. Alt tags can be added to Flash objects, but I'm not sure if
text readers can 'see' them, though.
On Wednesday, January 30, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Miranda wrote:
> Dave, I fully agree.
>
> To me the most disappointing thing about this new web site is that it
> is, just like the old one, entirely inaccessible to visually impaired
> computer users like I am. Software for the blind isn't able to read
> flash, so, if I open the site I just"see nothing at all.
>
> This is even more disappointing because it isn't so much extra work to
> create a web site that can be used by everybody, and because Sue has
> promised me long ago that they would look at accessibility when the
> website would be revised. But apparently it isn't that important to
> them.
>
> Miranda
>
ANNE HUTCHINS
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