The conclusion I am coming to, with 5 days since I asked this and no-one
actually saying they do ANYTHING to cater for people with disabilities, is
that even after all this time, no one really spends much time thinking about
users with special needs, other than to code to standards and hope that
Mike, maybe you should have worded your question a little differently. At my
company, we don't approach accessibility as catering to users with
disabilities, but we work toward making applications accessible to the
greatest number of users possible. No application will ever be 100% accessible,
On 2011/08/23 15:11 (GMT) Julie Romanowski
julie.romanowski.l...@statefarm.com composed:
To answer your question - Sticking to standards is not enough.
Accessibility and usability testing are critical. At my company, we have
both an accessibility lab and a usability lab. We have accessibility
I have to agree with Julie here.
Working for the largest UK retailer we pay a lot of attention to accessibility.
Currently reviewing http://www.tesco.com/ in response to only five minor issues
raised by the RNIB accessibility report.
The way we state it is web standards and validation are the
Sad, but true, Felix. We know State Farm Bank (among other sites/applications)
has accessibility issues and are working with the support area to resolve them.
Unfortunately, changes like this take time.
Unfortunately, there are people in every organization who don't like change,
and a couple
On 8/23/11 3:53 AM, Mike Kear wrote:
Mike Kear
http://afpwebworks.com
Setting the fonts at user default and ditching Verdana is the first
place to start...
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On 8/23/11 12:53 AM, Mike Kear wrote:
I guess it's going to take another law suit like that one against the
Olympics2000 site to get anyone to take users with special needs seriously
and actually lift a finger to cater to their needs.
What would that lift a finger actually consist of?
I'm
On 2011/08/23 16:35 (GMT) Julie Romanowski composed:
Sad, but true, Felix. We know State Farm Bank (among other
sites/applications) has accessibility issues and are working with the
support area to resolve them. Unfortunately, changes like this take time.
Unfortunately, there are people in
I am not part of this conversation and don't understand why I received this
e-mail.
Ted Knoy
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Julie Romanowski
julie.romanowski.l...@statefarm.com wrote:
Mike, maybe you should have worded your question a little differently. At
my company, we don't approach
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, David Laakso wrote:
On 8/23/11 3:53 AM, Mike Kear wrote:
Mike Kear
http://afpwebworks.com
Setting the fonts at user default
Absolutely!
and ditching Verdana is the first place to start...
Totally irrelevant. There is nothing wrong with Verdana; it is only
On 8/23/11 2:07 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, David Laakso wrote:
On 8/23/11 3:53 AM, Mike Kear wrote:
Mike Kear
http://afpwebworks.com
Setting the fonts at user default
Absolutely!
and ditching Verdana is the first place to start...
Totally irrelevant.
On 2011-08-23 19:12, David Laakso wrote:
It is relevant only if you are one of the few on the planet who are
concerned with typography and see Verdana for what it is at default:
pug-ugly.
While that might be your opinion, it's not necessarily relevant to the
topic of this discussion: Usability
On 8/23/11 7:32 PM, Tom Ditmars wrote:
On 2011-08-23 19:12, David Laakso wrote:
It is relevant only if you are one of the few on the planet who are
concerned with typography and see Verdana for what it is at default:
pug-ugly.
While that might be your opinion, it's not necessarily relevant to
You are doing an online course and yet you don't know how to find out what is
included in the Web design suite! How about going to Adobe's website and do
your own research? You never know this could help you fine tune your research
skills.
Do we also have to give you the Adobe's website
Hi Mike,
Please forgive me if I am being repetitive as I have not read all of the
replies to your question.
I have worked in commonwealth government for several years, so can only
give you a perspective from that angle. All commonwealth and State
Government departments must now comply with
hi.
well i did find the web page and did see what is in it.
so, which products in the web premium version is acessible with screen
readers.
i know illustrator and photo shop is probably not acessible with jaws,
but what about fireowrks, i know dream weaver is, and what about flash.
marvin.
Then this will do...
body { font-family: sans-serif; }
If you ever do this, I strongly suggest you test it on older Windows System.
tee
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Marvin,
Why not send an email or call Adobe Inc?
Unless someone has already used the Adobe products with screen readers, nobody
can give you answer except Adobe.
Quite honestly, Adobe targets its products to visual oriented designers, not
screen reader's users, so I will be surprised if it
On 8/23/11 10:32 PM, tee wrote:
Then this will do...
body { font-family: sans-serif; }
If you ever do this, I strongly suggest you test it on older Windows System.
tee
Each and everyone of you win. I give-up. I have taken a coil of rope to
the woods. Farewell.
On 8/24/2011 10:29 AM, karen.cony...@immi.gov.au wrote:
Hi Mike,
Please forgive me if I am being repetitive as I have not read
all of the replies to your question.
I have worked in commonwealth government for several years,
hi.
well trying to use adobe online system is a bit of a pain, and having to
jump via hoops.
so did find their number in australia.
so will rin on friday, and see what they say about accessibility in
their tools.
marvin.
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