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From: Schuffman, Jan (General Services - ADA)
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 1:30PM
Subject: examples of grossly inaccessible pages?
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I've been asked for some links to websites/pages that are grossly
inaccessible, for whatever various reasons. While I know they're out
there just lying around for the picking, I thought I'd ask here whether
anyone knows of any specific ones that have been (or could be) used as
examples of this particular dubious distinction. I know about
WebPagesThatSuck.com and will be checking there, but you folks might
know of others that are just all wrong in terms of accessibility...?

Jan




From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 1:50PM
Subject: Re: examples of grossly inaccessible pages?
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Schuffman, Jan (General Services - ADA) wrote:
> Ive been asked for some links to websites/pages that are grossly
> inaccessible, for whatever various reasons.

http://www.live.com/

I was going to say http://www.target.com and noticed that they've
started adding a few alt attributes now. Still missing quite a lot
though...so not as grossly as before, but still far from accessible.

P
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From: Karl Groves
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:00PM
Subject: RE: examples of grossly inaccessible pages?
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Some of my favorite examples of inaccessible sites:
<http://www.nyse.com/>; http://www.nyse.com/
http://www.gm.com/
http://toyota.com/


Karl L. Groves
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I've been asked for some links to websites/pages that are grossly
inaccessible, for whatever various reasons. While I know they're out there
just lying around for the picking, I thought I'd ask here whether anyone
knows of any specific ones that have been (or could be) used as examples of
this particular dubious distinction. I know about WebPagesThatSuck.com and
will be checking there, but you folks might know of others that are just all
wrong in terms of accessibility.?

Jan




From: Rimantas Liubertas
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:30PM
Subject: Re: examples of grossly inaccessible pages?
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> I've been asked for some links to websites/pages that are grossly
> inaccessible, for whatever various reasons.

My current favourites are sites of the SEB group:

http://seb.se/
http://seb.de/ and others. As if frames there not enough: check out
the innovative way to implement
navigation: <td onclick ="...">
Firefox won't even change cursor to "hand" on some...

Regards,
Rimantas




From: Jared Smith
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 2:40PM
Subject: Re: examples of grossly inaccessible pages?
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Schuffman, Jan (General Services - ADA) wrote:
> I know about
> WebPagesThatSuck.com and will be checking there, but you folks might
> know of others that are just all wrong in terms of accessibility&?

Here's a few of my favorites... I mean, most hated...

Now, these are just plain terrible sites for LOTS of reasons, but I've
used them to easily point out what NOT to do.

http://www.renttoownrealestate.com/

http://www.globalaigs.org/

And of course WebPagesThatSuck.com has plenty to choose from. Or pick most
any Flash-based web site, such as this one I ran into recently -
http://www.starz.com

Let's just not let things get personal in this thread, OK.

Jared





From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Fri, Mar 24 2006 3:40PM
Subject: Re: examples of grossly inaccessible pages?
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On 3/24/06, Schuffman, Jan (General Services - ADA) <
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> I've been asked for some links to websites/pages that are grossly
> inaccessible, for whatever various reasons.
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Inaccessible by/to whom?

Which specific populations are addressing in this regard?

(It's hard to just say "accessible" or "inaccessible" without defining the
parameters. Accessibility doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's a function with
people in the equation.)

--Kynn