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Re: What makes this site such an accessibility train wreck?

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From: Carin Headrick
Date: Sep 24, 2010 8:33AM

Well, glad it could be of help somehow. I googled out their phone number.
They'll be getting daily calls for updates since I can't use their blasted
site and I don't feel like missing his funeral.
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From: "Bevi Chagnon | PubCom" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] What makes this site such an accessibility train
wreck?


From a web developer's viewpoint, this is a poorly coded website:
- Redundant code (e.g., multiple links to the same CSS).
- CSS/HTML code is commented out, rather than just removed.
- Both tables and DIV tags are used for layout.
- Lots of ridiculous code fragments that don't do anything (like an empty
form tag).
- 5,385,291 scripts are running on the page. OK, so I exaggerated a bit!

And I haven't even gotten to the accessibility issues yet.

Carin, I would suggest you call them but the phone number is in a graphic
rather than as live, A.T.-readable text.

It appears to be a website generated by a template from a web hosting
company, and their copyright date is 2006, which is pretty old in terms of
how we now code websites, especially regarding accessibility.

I want to thank you for giving me such an excellent example for my students
<grin>. It's what they shouldn't do! Although its visual design is
attractive, the code is terrible.

-Bevi Chagnon

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