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Re: need help = accessilbity and flash

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Apr 8, 2006 8:40PM

Jamie,
Is your boss blind?

Just have a a person with screen readers try to use the site.
Make sure your boss is in the room with them when they try to
use the site. I think the experience will be the best teacher.

Jon




---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 08:52:21 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Jamie < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>Subject: [WebAIM] need help = accessilbity and flash
>To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>
>I'm a web administrator for Fl blind services. We now
>have an contract group that just made a new web site
>that i was told to link to. I feel that site is not
>accessible it uses flash. Within the flash it would
>be accessible if it did stuff like alt text. But I
>feel that using flash as the only medium to access a
>site is not a good practice. I told my boss this but
>she said I was wrong. We at the division should not
>care about the accessiblity of a site that we contract
>for. So please look at the site. Tell me if I am
>wrong about accessiblity. Suggest ways to make it
>accessible if I am correct about the flash only site.
>
>http://www.floridablindservices.org/
>
>
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D.
Director of IT Accessibility Services
Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES)
and
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Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES)

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