[Faith-talk] inaccessible church Websites

[Linda Mentink]

Hi all,

A couple years ago at our National Convention, we were asked to 
contact our own Anne Taylor with these concerns. That's the only idea 
I have at the moment!

Blessings,

Linda

At 01:28 AM 3/22/2011, you wrote:
>hi Joshua and others,
>
>this is something I think we should work on too if it's at all 
>possible! I'm not sure what we can do bout it though...any ideas linda?
>i am trying to get a job with a church as a children's pastor and it 
>makes it very dificolt if a church website or a denomination's 
>webpage isn't accessable! I've visited several church websites over 
>the last year and a half and many of them have all their links set 
>as images so all my comp says is image followed by a whole bunch of 
>numbers...all I can do is click each until I by chance find the 1 
>I'm looking for...
>sorry bout this rant, but it's hard to get a job when you can't even 
>find out if a particular church has an opening cause you can't 
>navigate their website!!
>
>I hope there is something that can be done to help this problem!
>
>Amy R.
>
>
>On Mar 21, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Joshua Lester wrote:
>
> > 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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