[nfbmi-talk] complaint ada

[joe harcz Comcast]

Thank you Fred ... I haven't begun with the complaints over all the web 
sites and the fact that they are all on the Michigan.gov site run by DTMB.

actually the sites are generally, with some exceptions accessible. but the 
documents therein are far too often either poorly paginated pdfs or pure 
image files.

A great deal of good has been done on this issue by Mr. ADA PaPatrick D. 
Cannon eh?

Peace,

Joe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] complaint ada


> Hi Joe,
>
> Good job.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 8:43 AM
> To: Joel Hoffman DTMB ADA Coordinater
> Cc: nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] complaint ada
>
> complaint ada documents dtmb        Dear Joel,
>
> As with many documents on DTMB's own web sites they are inaccessible to
> people with disabilities including those of us who are blind. In fact they
> violate DTMB's own internal policy on the issue.
>
> Here's some cases in point. I've gone to the following DTMB url at:
> http://www.michigan.gov/dmb/0,1607,7-150-41524-140296--,00.html
>
> When I click on many of the referenced pdf documents and do a quick check 
> of
> my Jaws screen reader for accessibility I'm informed that the document has
> no text. In other words these and many, many important DTMB documents
> themselves are just as inaccessible to us as if we were given the print
> document in the first place for our screen reading technology goes blind
> too.
>
> Moreover, there is no ready way for us to make requests for similar
> information in a timely manner and this leaves us with a case by case 
> issue
> for apparently DTMB has not followed its obligations to act affirmatively 
> in
> these regards (re: Tyler v. Manhattan for affirmative obligations of Title
> II entities to ensure effective communications systemically and not simply
> on an ad hoc basis).
>
> Moreover, the timeliness issue is certainly at stake here as is most
> obvious.
>
> Regardless this stands as a complaint against the DTMB and I would hope 
> that
> all inaccessible image based pdf documents on all of its web sites are 
> made
> accessible forthwith.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joe Harcz
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