[nfbwatlk] An Unscientific Poll

[Mike Freeman]

Thank you, Jedi.

Actually, the music doesn't really pose a problem for those with dial-up 
connections since it's a MIDI file and only about 12K in length; put 
another way, it's a file that orders your soundcard to play the music. 
But you may have a point re the HH community. As I say, most people 
these days know that hitting escape silences the music. Bottom line: I 
guess I'll take that one under advisement and, like the government, 
proceed with "all deliberate speed". <lopsided grin>

As for your other two suggestions, they're easy to make although the 
links for the site are close enough to the top that I hadn't thought it 
necessary to label them with a header. C'est la vie.

Thank you.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jedi" <loneblindjedi at samobile.net>
To: <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] An Unscientific Poll


Mike,

I wouldn't mind the music either, but it may be difficult for some
users to handle (i.e. people with slower internet connections and those
with hearing difficulties that make it hard to hear when there's
background noise). I don't think you need a skip to content link
because that's really only useful when you have several frames on a web
page. However, I would put "We are changing what it means to be blind"
closer to the top of the page a have a heading for links. You could
call the heading "Web site Links" or something which would make them
more easily accessible using heading navigation. Otherwise, things look 
good.

Respectfully,
Jedi
Original message:
> Hello, everyone.

> First, thank you, Doug, for posting the convention section of the NFBW
> web page; I suppose I should have done it but it's come out in dribs 
> and
> drabs and so I figured everyone had read it. But as a reminder and
> gathering of salient convention information in one message, it's 
> superb.

> And, speaking of the web site, I hope everyone at least goes thru it
> once; it's pretty-much the way I'm going to leave it for awhile. Yes,
> it's very plain-Jane. However, it's accessible and, not being a crak
> HTML programmer or style-sheet guru, it's what you're gonna get while
> I'm doing the web maintenance. There is this: it isn't costing us
> anything. <grin> The URL, BTW, is http://www.nfbw.org.

> Speaking of the web site, I have a question: do you like the opening
> page with or without the music? I rather like the music (especially as
> it's a blue-grass version of "Glory Glory Federation") but got to
> thinking that not everyone knows to hit the ESCAPE key to silence the
> music while using a screen-reader. Should I put the music back or 
> leave
> it off? I haven't looked thru a lot of affiliate web sites but most
> don't have opening music.

> Also, is everyone easy without a "Skip to Content" link at the 
> beginning
> of the main page? I'm allergic to that concept, believing that most
> people who've been around more than a day or two know to look for
> headers and the first Level 1 Header is at the convention info and one
> doesn't have to then hit the back button *twice* on any page to get to
> the previous one.

> If/when we ever publish the "Blind Liberator" newsletter, I anticipate
> it will be on the web pages somewhere also. Now if I only had a feel 
> for
> how large an image was in pixels ...

> Mike Freeman


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