[Blindtlk] Inaccessible sites

[Jude DaShiell]

Computer science educators need to have as graduation prerequisites 
passing grades in a class on software accessibility; operating system 
accessibility, and web accessibility.  Three totally different topics.

On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, Ericka via blindtlk wrote:

> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 14:20:39
> From: Ericka via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Ericka <dotwriter1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Inaccessible sites
> 
> I also think that we should encourage computer science educators to offer a class in web accessibility or at least more than a passing day of "you might need to do this" accessibility education for the students. Start from the bottom and they'll be aware when they get to the top!
>
> Ericka Short
> from my iPhone 6+
>
>> On Aug 10, 2017, at 6:04 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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