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From: Mary Martinson Grossnickle
Date: Sep 20, 2004 8:45AM

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>* http://www.chatsworth-house.co.uk/
> - a site for a beautiful stately home in the North of England - meets
>RNIB's See It Right standard
>

Martin, can you tell me if most sites that pass the RNIB audit put the See
It Right logo on the page? I notice that yours does not. Also, do you know
how the audit is conducted: is it only done with software tools, or do they
have an expert review, or at least some human intervention?

A couple of notes:
The link "Read More" appears multiple times on a page. When a person with a
screen reader brings up the list of links, the links will be out of context,
and so the user can't tell where a "Read More" link will go. Instead of
"Read More" you can link the text within the sentence or phrase. For
example, you could link "Rare Greenhouse tours" (WCAG 13.1 Clearly identify
the target of each link. Link text should be meaningful enough to make sense
when read out of context)

Also, in my screen reader, the table that begins with the picture of Nancy
Mitford reads:
This year, Shopping, For Young People, New This Year, Fine Food and Gifts,
Everyone Welcome
The table needs to be linearized (WCAG 5.3 Do not use tables for layout
unless the table makes sense when linearized.)

I didn't go any further with checking the site. I do like the look and feel!
Hope this helps your accessibility efforts,
Mary