On 10/25/06, Brian Cummiskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
in case you ugys haven't seen this yet: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061024/ap_on_bi_ge/business_of_life
"Kelly Groehler, a spokeswoman for Best Buy Co., says the company has made a number of changes to its site since late last year, including incorporating "alt tags" — or text that labels items like graphics — into its site." "alt tags" ... groan... but thanks so much for this article, and big props to Best Buy for being proactive. I like this part: "Other retailers are making similar efforts, but it remains a challenge due to the continuing evolution in the technologies used by blind people to surf the Internet, says Scott Silverman, executive director of Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation for online retailers. "As the retailers' Web sites continue to evolve to stay competitive in the marketplace, sometimes the technologies necessary to do that are a little bit ahead of where the screen-readers are," Silverman said. "It's a very fast-moving environment. Retailers want to serve all their customers, including blind people." Maybe, just maybe, some standards for how web sites are made would be a good idea? Then, as long as the sites fit those standards, then maybe it would be easier to assume that the screenreaders can understand them? Maybe these standards could be called, oh, I don't know... ... wait for it... webstandards? -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... portfolio.christianmontoya.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
