[gui-talk] inaccessibility of www.cstv.com/allaccess

[richard kurlander]

if you helped lainey with mlb you should help her with this. I have a 
right to hear the game like any sighted person and accessibility 
should should made the law.At 11:13 PM 9/23/2010, you wrote:
>One person's gravy is another's dross. there are plenty who would 
>figure that you could look up the scores whereas they can't drive.
>
>I'm really not taking sides but there is more work to do than there 
>are people to do it. I agree that Laney did a fine job with MLB (I 
>helped her squash some bugs) and I agree that Flash can be made 
>accessible. But in the Windows world, there's no real way to enforce 
>accessibility standards short of lawsuits.
>
>Just one person's $0.02-worth.
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "richard kurlander" <rkurlander at nyc.rr.com>
>To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 6:57 PM
>Subject: [gui-talk] inaccessibility of www.cstv.com/allaccess
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>
>>a few months I posted a message about the inaccessibility of 
>>www.cstv.com/allaccess. the live events such as audio and video are 
>>in a inaccessible flash player. I paid $119 for an account to 
>>access the college games that they carry. I can't believe that no 
>>other blind has an account. I am sure that other blind people like 
>>listening to college sports. It seems that cbs interactive who runs 
>>the website has no plans to fix this problem after speaking to greg 
>>stevens who works in tech support. he says that the flash plug in 
>>which they use from adobe, is inaccessible. I know you can take the 
>>links from each game and put them on a web page in a text format. I 
>>am very surprised that I heard no response from my last post. if 
>>other blind are interested in hearing these games they should 
>>google the lawyer Lainey Feingoldd, she is the one  who worked in 
>>getting mlb to make their page accessible. Blind people and 
>>organizations such as nfb must start waking up and getting after 
>>people who don't care and continually make web sites inaccessible. 
>>they should stop worrying about blind people driving and fixing websites.
>>
>>
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