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Re: Accessible Politics

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From: smithj7@peoplepc.com
Date: Feb 14, 2007 9:10PM

I haven't looked yet. As a developer I LOVE tools to hit the highlights and
help ensure some level of accessiblity. However, 99 percent of the time
when I help a person fix a site to make it more accessible it is the
USEABLITY that is an issue and the folks could have passed the tool. I'm
sure most of the folks know tons of examples.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessible Politics


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> I noticed you annotated these as errors. Automated testing tools
> are notorious for warnings that aren't accessibility issues; just asking
> if you can qualify the severity or degree of their errors? I thought
> your blog entry would be better if you could qualify them, such as you
> did generically with the input form issue.
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> I looked at one or two and offered to speak to their web teams
> or vendors or in-house staff. While I don't necessary support anyone in
> particular, they all should be as inclusive as possible. If anyone else
> here gets a response and needs help, please don't hesitate to ask; I'm
> glad to help if I can.
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> Regards,
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> Norman B. Robinson
> a.k.a., <EMAIL REMOVED> as the offer for help is
> personal efforts on my personal time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of John E.
> Brandt
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 8:50 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: [WebAIM] Accessible Politics
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> Wouldn't it be great to have at least one campaign website that meets
> accessibility standards?
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> I just ran a little accessibility "test" on some of the websites of the
> "major" US presidential candidates and a few of the exploratory campaign
> sites. I've posted the sad results on my blog:
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> http://www.jebswebs.com/jebsblog/tabid/53/EntryID/37/Default.aspx
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> John E. Brandt
> Augusta, Maine USA
> www.jebswebs.com
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