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Re: Easy Web Browsing Software

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From: Chris Hoffman
Date: Jun 13, 2009 11:05AM

It looks like a great product for someone who could benefit from a
screen magnifier.

As long as he doesn't already have a screen magnifier.

And as long as he doesn't use any application except his browser

(so long as that browser doesn't have a zoom function).

And as long as he doesn't browse any site except for macys.com.

Oh, yes, almost forgot: He'd better be using Windows
(http://www1.macys.com/accessibility/os_err_en.html).

There are a bunch of these "solutions" out there. I think Macy's would
be better off putting the effort into making their site accessible
with alt attributes, semantic HTML, coherent document structure, etc.,
rather than trying to shift the responsibility onto somebody else.

--Chris

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Karlen
Communications< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> If you go to http://www.macys.com/ and then go to the link "Download our new
> user assistance tool" which sounds like it is near the bottom of the page,
> you'll get the Macy's link and info about the Easy Web Browsing tool.
>
> Cheers, Karen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dean Hamack
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:25 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] Easy Web Browsing Software
>
> Came across this while browsing the Macy's website:
>
> http://www1.macys.com/accessibility/start_en.html
>
> Anybody tried it? Thoughts?
>
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