[nfb-talk] Technology accessibility, recent healthcare.gov rollout

[Todor Fassl]

Have you some reason to believe the healthcare sight has accessibility 
issues? As far as I know, the only problem is that it's slow. It's not 
"poorly designed".

On 10/23/13 15:44, Bill Outman wrote:
> Good day.
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> We all have our opinions on the new health care law which I will not debate
> here.
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> Given the difficulty some of the general public has had in accessing the
> poorly designed healthcare.gov web site since it went live, there may now be
> a greater appreciation for the problems we can experience in Internet and
> other technology access, even with our adaptive tools such as Jaws.
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> My most recent experience with this, ironically enough, was attempting to
> access a 60 Minutes story about investigations of disability benefits
> claims.  I was able to google the location of the story but could not make
> the video play because the buttons were not labeled correctly or have easy
> activation.
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> It would be helpful if those who rightly criticize the problematic design of
> healthcare.gov would expend some energy addressing our accessibility issues
> as well.
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> William H. "Bill" Outman
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> Secretary, Greater Daytona Beach Chapter
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> National Federation of the Blind of Florida
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