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From: Patrick Dunphy
Date: Thu, Nov 25 2010 12:12PM
Subject: Accessibility Statement review
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Hello everyone,

This morning my employer has placed an accessibility statement on their
site.

If anyone has time, I would very much appreciate any feedback and/or
recommendations for the following page: http://www.cbc.ca/accessibility/

The content is minimal right now, but will expand the contents over time so
that users of AT can learn of accessibility improvements when they are made
to the site.

Thanks!
-Patrick

From: G.Sørtun
Date: Thu, Nov 25 2010 12:51PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility Statement review
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> If anyone has time, I would very much appreciate any feedback and/or
> recommendations for the following page:
> http://www.cbc.ca/accessibility/

This message...
"Please note that all links in this section will open a new browser window."
...should be expanded to say something like...
"Please note that all links in this section will open a new browser
window, unless your browser is set not to support automatic opening of
new windows."

After all; not all of us who dislike such 'opening of new windows' will
sit back and just let it pass, and many browsers do let us override or
ignore most such attempts.

On sites that for whatever reason insist on opening new windows,
accessibility statements like the one presented may be improved even
more if users are informed /how to fix/ the "new window" problem in
their browser of choice.

regards
Georg

From: David Farough
Date: Thu, Nov 25 2010 2:24PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility Statement review
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Hi Patrick:
That is quite good.

Is there any chance that accessibility of television programming will
follow? I find it frustrating when music plays while stock market
quotes are shown on screen or when captions are shown when languages
other than English are spoken. I do not know the percentage of your
programming that is described, but often when watching the news, I feel
excluded when these situations occur.

David Farough
Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité
Information Technology Services Directorate /
Direction des services d'information technologiques
Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique
Email / Courriel: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779

>>> Patrick Dunphy < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > 02:12 PM Thursday,
November 25, 2010 >>>
Hello everyone,

This morning my employer has placed an accessibility statement on
their
site.

If anyone has time, I would very much appreciate any feedback and/or
recommendations for the following page:
http://www.cbc.ca/accessibility/

The content is minimal right now, but will expand the contents over
time so
that users of AT can learn of accessibility improvements when they are
made
to the site.

Thanks!
-Patrick