[Ansteorra] ISO the Three Queens website

[mikea]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:35:43AM -0500, Haraldr Bassi wrote:
> That would be because there is no text to see. It's nothing but graphics. 
> So anyone who doesn't show all images by default will see nothing. Any 
> visually impaired person who browses the net using a screen reader is just 
> plain outta luck.
> 
> Please.... please.... everyone who is designing event websites, stop using 
> nothing but graphic images for your event web site. We can't cut and paste, 
> we can't even print things well. It's getting to the point where I am 
> likely to start ignoring/boycotting any event whose website is nothing but 
> graphics.

Ditto. I can see very well indeed now, but have many friends who can't.
It is entirely probable that at some point in time I will be in their
boat. 

Graphics-only websites, however beautiful and attractive to the sighted,
are actively unfriendly to the blind, and fail to comply with the
Americans with Disabilities Act, which the BoD has said the Society
*will* comply with.

-- 
Mike Andrews        /   Michael Fenwick    Barony of Namron, Ansteorra
mikea at mikea.ath.cx  /   Amateur Extra radio operator W5EGO
Tired old music Laurel; Chirurgeon; SCAdian since AS XI