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Re: The a11y bugs project

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From: Nancy Johnson
Date: Oct 24, 2011 12:45PM

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
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