[Blindtlk] Inaccessible conference website

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Marion,

The conference sponsor is the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, a private membership organization of research
psychologists. It doesn't directly relate to human services as most
members are academic researchers, though a few may have clinical
practices too. I believe the conference uses a specialized online
platform for online registration, which other conferences may use as
well, but I don't recall the name of the platform.

Best,
Arielle

On 1/11/14, National Association of Guide Dog Users
<blind411 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Arielle,
> 	I have a couple questions concerning this. What sort of conference
> is this? Is the sponsor a public (governmental) or private entity? As the
> Co-Chair of the Policy & Law Committee of the Human Services Division of
> the
> National Federation of the Blind, I am gathering information concerning the
> inaccessibility of services that tend to discriminate against blind
> professionals in the human service fields. We have already made progress on
> this issue with the practice tests and licensing examinations of the
> American Board of Clinical Social Workers. You may have noticed a message
> from Valerie Yingling  concerning Electronic Health Records (HER); This is
> also an initiative of the division. We will be having a Policy & Law
> Committee meeting tomorrow and would like more information concerning this,
> if it is applicable. You can either reply to this list or write to me
> personally at
>
> Marion.Gwizdala at verizon.net
>
> Fraternally yours,
> Marion Gwizdala
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Arielle
> Silverman
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 3:12 PM
> To: Blind Academics Discussion List
> Cc: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Inaccessible conference website
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm attending an academic conference next month and as I was about to
> submit
> my online registration, discovered an inaccessible slider that had to be
> slid to the right before the website would let me submit my payment info. I
> complained to the registrar that as a blind person I couldn't access the
> online conference registration, and was told to try a different Web
> browser.
> When I explained that the problem wasn't with the browser's interface but
> with the use of  a slider, which to my knowledge cannot interact with JAWS,
> the registrar offered me to fill out a PDF registration form and said that
> they cannot remove the slider because it offers enhanced security. She did
> seem attentive to my concerns but I am not terribly confident that the
> problem will be remedied on the website. I eventually decided to have my
> husband help me with the slider because the PDF registration form could not
> be filled out by computer and so I would have needed sighted help
> regardless, and doing the slider required less sighted help.
>
> I have a few questions for you guys. First, have any of you had success
> handling these sliders with JAWS? I've never seen such an element before on
> a Web page. Second, do you know if conference websites are legally required
> to be accessible under Section 508? If so, I would like to push the matter
> further. The website for this conference had multiple accessibility issues
> although the slider one was the most blatant. I complained to them back in
> 2009 and they fixed some of the problems but not all of them. Third, is it
> really true that a slider offers maximum security and if so, what
> accessible
> remedy should I suggest to them that doesn't compromise security?
>
> Thanks,
> Arielle
>
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