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From: Fuwad Ilyas
Date: Mon, Jun 11 2001 2:32AM
Subject: Help Wanted -- Accessibility Problems
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Dear Friends:
I am Fuwad Ilyas, Webmaster, U.S. Embassy Islamabad,
pakistan. I am working on my website to make it
Section 508 (ADA) Compliance. I donot know where the
problem is. I have fix all ALT tags. I am checking my
website with Bobby (http://www.cast.org/bobby) out
website is at (http://usembassy.state.gov/pakistan)
and (http://usembassy.state.gov/islamabad)
I have tried to fix Priority 1 error on these pages.
But could not find out remaining problems.
Please have a look at these two pages and give me
advise.
Regards.
Fuwad Ilyas
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From: Jean Watkins
Date: Mon, Jun 11 2001 11:19AM
Subject: Re: Help Wanted -- Accessibility Problems
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You are passing Level 1 Bobby Accessibility, so you are safe to display the
Bobby Approved logo and consider yourself accessible. However, if you want
to achieve even more accessibility the Level 2 item they are pointing out to
you is that you are missing the DOCTYPE statement. It would be placed above
your <HTML> tag and look something like this:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
The first priority 3 issue Bobby is telling you about is to add the language
to your document. Your <HTML> tag should look like <HTML lang="en"> if your
site is in English.
The second priority 3 item is that you need to provide regular text links to
the places your image map links to (your various embassy and consulate
pages).
I think you're safe in ignoring the third priority 3 item since your table
is being used for layout rather than information. Someone else may be able
to better answer this one.
I hope this was helpful!
Jean Watkins
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----- Original Message -----
> I am Fuwad Ilyas, Webmaster, U.S. Embassy Islamabad,
> pakistan. I am working on my website to make it
> Section 508 (ADA) Compliance. I donot know where the
> problem is. I have fix all ALT tags. I am checking my
> website with Bobby (http://www.cast.org/bobby) out
> website is at (http://usembassy.state.gov/pakistan)
> and (http://usembassy.state.gov/islamabad)

From: slq2b
Date: Mon, Jun 11 2001 4:26PM
Subject: Re: Help Wanted -- Accessibility Problems
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Fuwad,
It does look like you will have only a few changes to make in order to have
your site pass bobby. However, that does not necessarily mean the site is
accessible.
I had our assistive technology expert view your pages with the JAWS screen
reader. The usembassy.state.gov/pakistan read ok but the text version was
incomplete and contained images with odd alt tags.
All the links on the usembassy.state.gov/islamabad page except for the email
link are invisible to JAWS. From my understanding Applet links are not
processed by screen readers. I hear that there are ways to overcome that.
Perhaps someone else could shed some light on that. Refer to the WAI's
checkpoint 6 at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#Guidelines.
Also check out http://www.webaim.org/resources/ for more information.
Shane Anderson
Software Developer
Web Accessibility in Mind - http://www.WebAIM.org

>===== Original Message From WebAIM accessibility forum
< = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > ====>Dear Friends:
>
>I am Fuwad Ilyas, Webmaster, U.S. Embassy Islamabad,
>pakistan. I am working on my website to make it
>Section 508 (ADA) Compliance. I donot know where the
>problem is. I have fix all ALT tags. I am checking my
>website with Bobby (http://www.cast.org/bobby) out
>website is at (http://usembassy.state.gov/pakistan)
>and (http://usembassy.state.gov/islamabad)
>
>I have tried to fix Priority 1 error on these pages.
>But could not find out remaining problems.
>Please have a look at these two pages and give me
>advise.
>
>Regards.
>
>Fuwad Ilyas
> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
>Webmaster
>American Embassy Islamabad Pakistan
>
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