[Faith-talk] inaccessible church Websites

[Barbara Hammel]

And there you have a very good point.  I even told that to the folks at my 
church and I guess they deemed it unnecessary for blind folk to learn about 
it.  Guess they'd rather "those people" went to another church.
Okay, that was very un-Christian of me to say, but it does make me so angry.
I need to find other sites in my city and sites of former pastors and see 
how many I can access.  Just haven't done it yet.
Barbara




Through the sunny fields of yesterday
Echo voices of children now grown,
Their golden peals of laughter
Ring upon the ivied stone.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Joshua Lester
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:55 PM
To: Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion
Subject: Re: [Faith-talk] inaccessible church Websites

Who said anything about the ADA? The issue is, the blind are one of
the many groups that the church is supposed to reach, (so,) if their
Website is inaccessible, they're not doing their part to reach all of
the lost with the Gospel. It would be nice if the
churches/denominations would consider this.
Blessings, joshua

On 3/22/11, Barbara Hammel <poetlori8 at msn.com> wrote:
> My church's website is inaccessible, also.  It's the new flash that's 
> being
> used.  I understand that it's a fairly simple thing to solve.  They just
> need to put tags on the graphics.  Churches do not need to comply with the
> ADA so there's no way one can make them do it.
> Barbara
>
>
>
> Through the sunny fields of yesterday
> Echo voices of children now grown,
> Their golden peals of laughter
> Ring upon the ivied stone.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Lester
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 11:56 PM
> To: faith-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Faith-talk] inaccessible church Websites
>
> Hi, it's Joshua Lester. My denomination's Website's church locater
> page is inaccessivle. Go to www.upci.org, click on church locater, go
> to "search by zip," "search by city," and "search by pastor."
> On thos links, you type in your zip code, your city, or a pastor's
> last name, and it will tell you what you need to know about a church
> in your community. The problem though, is that they have put captcha
> on the site. There's an audio file that says, "speak the captcha," but
> the file won't work. I've E-mailed them about this, but they don't
> seem to be doing anything. What am I to do? Also, are there any other
> Websites for denominations that have the same inaccessibility problem?
> If so, I think this is a great oppritunity for the Communities of
> Faith to step in and work together for accessibility on all church
> Websites. Thanks for your help. Blessings, Joshua
>
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