[nagdu] NAGDU website not working ?

[Tami Kinney]

Mardi,

Thanks for this! I was running to check it out when I remembered that 
there are some edits on the home page that will help to solve the 
problem of broken links that may explain your friends' difficulties.

As for pictures of guide dog users, we have received some, including 
yours... I have been looking for a graphics assistant but need to look 
harder.

You are right about pictures and about information being kept current 
and easily accessible.

To date, when this does not happen, it is my bad, since I am the 
webmaster. I currently have some great people ready and willing to work 
on various sections because a team effort will keep our site what it 
should be and move it forward...

I'm currently taking time aside to work on VR here in Oregon, because 
there is a big nasty mess. Also, I have some opportunities to get some 
adaptive tech I desperately need so that I can earn income...

But I will get to making sure those links work, because that is 
important, too. And do my part to get an excellent team working 
together, since they are all way smarter than me about a lot of things. 
/grin/

Please give your friend my personal apologies. If you have other 
observations, and specific information about which links specifically 
are not working (there are a lot of them!) and other things, please do 
either post a message to this list or get hold of me at webmaster at nagdu.org.

Thanks!

Tami

On 01/12/2012 09:01 PM, Mardi Hadfield wrote:
> Hi everyone, I refered a friend to the nagdu website as her father was
> recently blinded. She said that each time she tried to access something,it
> came back page not found.She was very disappointed as she wanted guide dog
> info.She could not even access the info on guide dog schools. I tried the
> website myself and had the same problems. She also said to me that she
> thought there should be pictures of guide dogs  so she could see what dog
> breeds were trained and what kind of training they go through. She said
> that for a website about the NFB and guide dog use, she got very little
> info and was disappointed.I recommended several books for her to read and
> told her about the list, but maybe she has a point here. As blind people
> and people with low vision, I think we tend to forget that sighted people
> want to see more when looking for information than just text.While I
> realize that this website is giving info for blind people, sighted people
> also look at it. I know that our webmaster recently requested some pictures
> of guide dogs working. Is there a possibility that there will be pictures
> on the site sometime in the future? I think we need to make sure that the
> info on the site is available so people looking for information can get it.
> I don't know if this is a website problem or a computer problem.I have
> looked up the site my self in the past and did not have any problems with
> it. Hope this gets sorted out soon so no one else has trouble getting
> info.  Mardi andShaman
>