[Blindtlk] Inaccessible sites

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I well help with this project in anyway that I can't thanks for sharing information

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> On Aug 10, 2017, at 7:04 AM, adrijana prokopenko via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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