[nfb-talk] Fwd: Amazon pressreleaseConcerningAccessibilityofWebSite

[Constance Canode]

Maybe there are advantages to using two screen readers, not at the 
same time of course...smile.  I have Window-Eyes and have never had a 
real problem with Amazon accessibility with it.  Maybe Jaws is also a 
bit of a problem.

Connie Canode
At 09:05 PM 1/4/2008, you wrote:
>In some cases, I have found it is tied to the combination of text and
>background.  If it is something like black on black, JAWS gets bogged down
>horribly.
>
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> > For me, its not an issue of slow loading, but sluggish response from Jaws
> > while viewing the site.  I'm not sure why this is happening.  I assume it
> > is
> > because of some Javascript or other client-side scripting, but I'm not
> > sure.
> >
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> >>
> >> On Jan 4, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> >>
> >>> Uh, no; I don't think so.  the reason is that this has been going on
> >>> for
> >>> months now.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regardless of when things started slowing down, slow-loading Web pages
> >> aren't an accessibility issue. At worst, they're a poor design issue.
> >> They may be a bandwidth issue. They are not an access issue.
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