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Re: Accessibility of third party comment systems suchas Disqus?

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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Jul 2, 2010 10:00AM

I use Echo, AKA JsKit, on my blog, and it's not the best best best, but it
is workable. I wish I could figure out why, in its latest flavour, the radio
buttons for following threads don't show up as radio buttons, nor do you
have any idea whether you have successfully clicked one...until the emails
start to come in, that is. There is an admin panel where you can ask for the
more stripped down interface, which makes it passible. All the emoticon
graphics are labeled, which is cute.

Carin
----- Original Message -----
From: "John E. Brandt" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility of third party comment systems suchas
Disqus?


That's a good question. It seems that there are new ones being developed all
the time and most are using some form of scripting that make them "look"
inherently inaccessible.

And, I've read some stuff on some blogs where folks are suggesting that some
of these "free feedback forms" are full of malware and/or create endless
pop-ups with links to "questionable websites. "

John E. Brandt
jebswebs.com
Augusta, ME USA
<EMAIL REMOVED>
www.jebswebs.com