[Ansteorra] websites for the visually impaired

Susan McMahill sueorintx at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 24 07:19:12 PDT 2009


Amen! 

 

Instead of complaining about it, offer to teach a class to people who make websites for events, or for group chroniclers or webministers. Being that we are an all volunteer group, sometimes we don't have people in our groups who have the training to make websites. I only know of a couple of people in our group that actively do websites for our events. I don't know if they have the tools (knowledge) to create the kind of site you would like to see. I know that most of us don't. I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to create any kind of website, let alone one that wasn't graphics intensive.

 

Actually, it might be helpful for a couple of classes to be made available at Round Tables, one on the ADA act and how we can and should comply to the best of our ability at events...a survey class of sorts, and another on non-graphic website creation. Who among you is prepared to stop complaining and start educating the rest of us?

 

Lyneya de Grey

Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


 
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:58:33 -0500
> From: lambdakennels1 at gmail.com
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Ansteorra] websites for the visually impaired
> 
> The Three Queens website is working fine. It is graphics intensive to
> appeal to people who find text only websites boring and will not use them.
> That does make it difficult to load for those of us with dial-up (I live in
> the boonies and cannot get DSL).
> 
> Not being a web designer, or someone who has needed to have a webpage for an
> event, I was not aware that graphics only pages could not be used by the
> programs that help those with visual impairments use the computer. Instead
> of glib condemnations, perhaps educating those of us who are not computer
> specialists on what design elements need to be present for the visually
> impaired to use a website would be helpful. I have found through my use of
> a service dog that education works better than snide comments and
> confrontation to change attitudes. Confrontation should be reserved for
> people who insist on denial of access after several attempts at education.
> Since this is the first I have heard of the issue, confrontation is
> premature here.
> 
> Lady Stephanie Lilburn
> -- 
> Stephanie S Smith, Ph.D.
> Hunt County, Texas, USA
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