[NFBCS] Inaccessible websites

[Tracy Carcione]

Of course you are right, but I haven't had any success at contacting them in the past.  But I'll try again.
Tracy


-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Reece O'Bryan via NFBCS
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2021 6:55 AM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Cc: Reece O'Bryan; Tracy Carcione
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Inaccessible websites

Instead of writing your frustration to this list,whom I am quite sure are also aware of inaccessible websites and frustrations, then why not contact the websites themselves with these exact issues?

Frame it as a way they are losing money and I am sure that they’ll address it.

I just want to add that I also would definitely not be giving a donation to a company that cannot spend minuscule amounts of time to verify basic accessibility for screen readers.


Thank you,

-Reece O’Bryan
C: (502)-827-3724
1645 Parkway, Sevierville, TN 37862



> On Dec 30, 2021, at 11:50 AM, charles.vanek--- via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I hear you Tracy.  Kiva I thought sounded like a really cool organization
> giving micro loans to people around the world.  So I suggested it as a gift
> certificate opportunity to someone about 4-5 years ago... I come to find out
> that their site was inaccessible.  In contacting Kiva their customer support
> had no way of helping to resolve the problem.  So to this day there's $50 I
> have loaded into a Kiva account that has never been loaned out to a worthy
> person.
> 
> Sad.  I don't know if anyone has used Kiva in the past few years and found
> that they have fixed their site.  
> 
> Anyway inaccessible site grumblings aside.  Have a Happy New Year Tracy and
> all.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via NFBCS
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2021 10:33 AM
> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: [NFBCS] Inaccessible websites
> 
> Just grumbling.  
> 
> This time of year, everyone and his cousin is asking for charitable
> donations.  There are some I'd actually like to donate to, so I've been to 2
> of those organizations' websites and been unable to make a donation.  On
> one, there's no way to specify the frequency of my donation.  On another, I
> was unable to get to the form field to put in some of my credit card info.
> 
> While I could pay AIRA to help me do this, why should I?  If someone wants
> my hard-earned cash, they ought to make it easy for me to hand it over.
> Really, I am sick of these half-accessible websites.
> 
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
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