[NFBCS] Inaccessible websites

[Aqil Sajjad]

May be we need to approach this from different directions. One other angle would be to try engaging with computer science or software engineering departments at universities and ask them to include accessibility as part of the standard coursework for any academic degree in programming. The other possible angle would be to pursue complaints at least against large websites or social media companies like twitter. But I don't know how that works in actual practice and when it makes sense to file a case with the department of justice. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?

-----Original Message-----
From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione via NFBCS
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2021 5:37 AM
To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Inaccessible websites

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-----
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> NFBCS
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2021 10:33 AM
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> 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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