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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sabra Ewing via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 3, 2023 10:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Sabra Ewing <sabra1023@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NFBCS] What Sites Use AccessiBe<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>They suck. You should look at their compliance reports. They make false accusations.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>But for example, they were accusing the Nfb of having an improperly labeled menu, when actually it was a group of Links.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Also, their videos and social media are not accessible. Their own website is not accessible and difficult to navigate.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The Nfb has a resolution against them. If they would do everyone a service and go out of business that would be great.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sabra Ewing<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On May 3, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Curtis Chong via NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Hello Nicole:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>The accessiBe home page lists a plethora of websites that you can examine. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Two which come to mind that you can try right away are <a href="www.drcog.org">www.drcog.org</a> and <a href="www.michaelhingson.com">www.michaelhingson.com</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Kindly,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'>Curtis Chong</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> NFBCS <<a href="mailto:nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org">nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nicole Torcolini via NFBCS<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 03, 2023 11:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:nfbcs@nfbnet.org">nfbcs@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Nicole Torcolini <<a href="mailto:torcolini@comcast.net">torcolini@comcast.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [NFBCS] What Sites Use AccessiBe<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> 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?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Nicole</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>NFBCS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NFBCS@nfbnet.org">NFBCS@nfbnet.org</a><br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org</a><br>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for NFBCS:<br><a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/sabra1023%40gmail.com">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/sabra1023%40gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>