[Nfb-web] our website and accessibility

[Gary Wunder]

Hi Chris. I think a lot of effort went into making our site accessible and 
where we are now is by no means the end of it. Our contract calls for 
accessibility from this vendor both in the web authoring tool and in what it 
generates. I'm passing your comments on to folks who maintain the site and 
have every confidence these will be addressed.

Thanks.

Gary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Westbrook" <westbc at clw19.com>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: [Nfb-web] our website and accessibility


I was really disappointed when I looked at the website for our members area 
yesterday.  I wasn't so disappointed at the sparseness of content, Peter 
covered that eloquently Yesterday.  When I looked at the various forms to 
submit suggestions and other things, I noticed they weren't reading well 
with window eyes.  A quick look at the source reveals that there are no 
label tags anywhere.  For those of you who don't know, a label tag is a 
quick and standard way to associate text on the screen with a control such 
as a form field.  I know we are getting our site from a new content 
management system, but I would think accessibility would have been part of 
the process in determining which cms to use.  I think if we are going to 
advocate for accessibility, we need to have a website that is completely 
accessible and be a model for others.  I'm really disappointed that we chose 
the easy way out with a cms that doesn't output fully accessible content 
rather than look at our membership to see who could assist with a redesign. 
It makes me wonder whether the national office functions above and outside 
of the membership, but that's another discussion for another post.  I hope 
things are handled better in the future.
Chris Westbrook
email or msn messenger; westbc at clw19.com
skype: chriswestbrook (please write a message that explains who you are if 
you add me to your contacts.)


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