[Blindtlk] Inaccessible sites

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It is so frustrating when you find out that someone is putting
 information on their site about blindness, blind people or anything
 you would like to read, but when you click the link, most of these
 sites are not accessible. I am sure that there are people and places
 that offer help to others for doing this, but I feel that the general
 public and even web developers need greater awareness and support and
 even pointing out that their site is not accessible. So as blind
 people, maybe we can each do more and keep encouraging others to test
 a site or give whatever help they can to whoever is interested to
 write or talk about us. Hope we can continue talking about this in the
 comments and put someideas out, so that we can keep bringing the issue
 forward, trying to work at it and keep remembering that something
 really needs to be done about this and if we don't take the main role
 as blind people, this process may go way slower and more frustrating
 for us. The idea number one I am putting here is that each of us who
 gets featured in a newspaper, TV or radio station or elsewhere, could
 check their website and if it is not accessible and not easy to get
 the contact info, to try and point this out to the person who they
 come in contact with that wants their story. If they realize that
 sites indeed need to become accessible, because many blind people are
 using computers with screen readers and many blind friends, relatives
 and others may see it by word of mouth or from a site or a group or
 page, then it helps them get more visitors and stories and a great
 promise that we would indeed keep appreciating their efforts and maybe
 even feature them and what they do in some of our magazines and pages,
 which would help them keep learning about us further if they indeed
 start to follow them.