[NFBCS] What Sites Use AccessiBe

Thu May 4 07:54:44 UTC 2023

Well, then you will probably be glad to hear what I am trying to do. I was going to wait until I got it working, but I will share with the list now.

            From what I can tell, AccessiByeBye is only available for Chrome, so I am trying to build an extension for Firefox. Several of the websites that I visit frequently have AccessiBe, and I am so sick and tired of hearing that stupid announcement.

From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Sabra Ewing via NFBCS
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They suck. You should look at their compliance reports. They make false accusations.

I told the people at the Nfb the false accusations they were making about their website, and then Nfb did something to their website so when you do a scan, it asks you to please allow access to Webcrawler's.

But for example, they were accusing the Nfb of having an improperly labeled menu, when actually it was a group of Links.

Essentially they try to label everything with artificial intelligence and it is a disaster. I don't notice any difference when I go to screen reader mode for any of the websites b because of course our screen readers already have the built-in artificial intelligence that is not any better than what they are using.

Also, if you do a web skin they tell you if that website is a customer of theirs, which could compromise customer data. The website where the WCAG3 guidelines are hosted is apparently a customer although they do not use it. Yet their automated system doesn't ding you for what they consider noncompliance for not having an accessibility overlay. So basically it can't tell if you have implemented it and it scores you as though you are.

Also, their videos and social media are not accessible. Their own website is not accessible and difficult to navigate.

The Nfb has a resolution against them. If they would do everyone a service and go out of business that would be great.

Sabra Ewing

On May 3, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Curtis Chong via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org <mailto:nfbcs at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Hello Nicole:

The accessiBe home page lists a plethora of websites that you can examine. 

Two which come to mind that you can try right away are www.drcog.org and www.michaelhingson.com.

Kindly,

Curtis Chong

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Subject: [NFBCS] What Sites Use AccessiBe

            I’m doing an experiment with AccessiBe—more information to come once I have more results. Could people please email me the URL’s of websites that use AccessiBe?

Thanks,

Nicole

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