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From: Vlad Alexander (XStandard)
Date: Oct 24, 2011 12:39PM

Thanks for signing the petition Nancy!

> This petition seems to focus on browser makers. Am I correct?
To focus the project and give it greater impact, the scope was initially set to 3 related bugs. As a result, the petition is just for these 3 bugs.

> I hope you take another step and focus on those companies or
> organizations that build Content Management Systems or image
> uploading systems... make the alt a required field.
I think that would be a great direction for the project to take.

We are working on software and procedures to let anyone submit bugs and work together with others to get vendors to fix them.

Some have proposed that this project should evolve to be a public catalog of all accessibility related bugs in all types of software.

Others have suggested that this project should use the bugs submitted to create an accessibility acid test for browsers.

Where this project goes is up to the community.

Regards,
-Vlad



-------- Original Message --------
From: Nancy Johnson
Date: 10/24/2011 11:18 AM
> Hi Vlad,
>
> I think the project is great. I've been now to 2 Boston Un-conferences...
>
> This petition seems to focus on browser makers. Am I correct?
>
> I hope you take another step and focus on those companies or
> organizations that build Content Management Systems or image uploading
> systems... make the alt a required field.
>
> More images are uploaded through Content Management Systems by
> non-websavy individuals who wouldn't have a clue.
>
> For instance:
> Wordpress Admin as so many settings for image upload that non-web savy
> content folks will skip anything that's not required. I am training
> someone who is struggling to remember all the settings which to use at
> which time and have written them down..
>
> Vignette CMS allows the file name of the image to be dynamically used
> as the alt tag... which to me can cause major issues with
> usability....
>
> Anyway
>
> Just my thoughts.
>
> Nancy Johnson
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Vlad Alexander
> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> I am contributing to "the a11y bugs project" that aims to identify and fix browser/tool bugs that undermine accessibility on the web. Fixing some of these bugs can have a major impact on web accessibility.
>>
>> Please check out the project here:
>> http://a11ybugs.org
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vlad Alexander
>>
>>
>>