[Faith-talk] inaccessible church Websites

[Joshua Lester]

Here's an accessible Website, (it's my church's site,) (lol.) Just go
to, www.graceandtruthtabernacle.webs.com.
Blessings, Joshua

On 3/22/11, Barbara Hammel <poetlori8 at msn.com> wrote:
> 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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