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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Oct 26, 2011 12:15AM

Hi

I happily signed this, and will pass the word on to the European Blind
Union technology expert mailing list, if that is ok with you (getting
signatures from multiple countries should only encourage fixes).
Does anyone know of, or is anyone planning, a similar project that
tracks inconsistencies and bugs in how various screen readers
implement web technologies (ARIA in particular)?
This is a complex game, the interaction between user, screen reader,
browser and content designer (sometimes CMS and the designer). I
suspect fixes will have to be made at all levels, including the screen
readers, so it would be great to track all of these things in one
place, and it is definitely one direction I could see this project go.
Personally, I think expanding it to all bugs in all software will be
too much, and it might lose focus, not unless it first successfully
deals with all web technologies, but with HTML5 on the horizon, I
doubt the accessibility commmunity will run out of projects any time
soon.
Keep up the good work.
-Birkir

On 10/24/11, Vlad Alexander < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>