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Re: LIFT Transcoder being pimped

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From: John Hamman
Date: Aug 5, 2004 9:59AM

Lift program is ok. I prefer using watchfires products like
http://www.watchfire.com/products/desktop/webqa/default.aspx (webQA) or
(bobby) for testing. It's more in-depth.

Lifts regular products that check for accessibility issues are not bad, not
great either, don't waist your money on the Nielson/Norman group version.
Plus using it with Dreamweaver is slow, because Dreamweaver is slow when it
comes to sites with over 200 pages.

What I meant in my little LIFT STINKS was really for LIFT Text Transcoder,
which I think has way to many flaws and leaves out the control of how you
want to deliver. Plus its slow. http://www.psu.edu/studentaid/ take a look
for yourself. Imagine if you have a cognitive disability or are deaf, how
does the text only help you? It only solves (if it even does that) a few
disabilities that our society thinks is the majority. We tend to throw up
text-only sites thinking only of the blind but it doesn't help majority of
the disabled. Think of Color blindness. They should not have to go to a
text-only site to be able to view the site, Or a low vision, or arthritis.
If you take away from their experience when you could of addressed those
disabilities without doing a "Text-Only" then you are discriminating against

them. Text only should be an ADD-ON to your already accessible site.
Ok I'm off my soap box.
john