[gui-talk] inaccessibility of silverlight 3.0 with cstv.com

[richard kurlander]

rich kurlander here, I am an all access subscriber so that I can hear 
college sports audio that some schools subscribe to. cstv.com is part 
of cbs sports and they use microsilverlight 3.0 which is not 
accessible with screen readers. there used to be a page 
www.cstv.com/gametracker or www.cstv.com/media/livegame.htm which 
would have the deep links so you could pick the game you want and it 
would work with screen readers. this year silverlight player doesn't 
work with screen readers and cbs cstv support doesn't know if they 
will fix the page and they can't fix the player. I was told that jaws 
11 would work with silverlight however windoweyes 7.1 doesn not and I 
was told by gw micro that microsoft must fix silverlight. I think 
that some in the nfb should get after cbs to fix cstv sports to make 
their pages accessible since you charged $99 to get all access. every 
year they change th player and it takes them if your are lucky to fix 
the accessibility problem. this problem affects the audio that 
colleges for any of their sports.