[nabs-l] Ah HA! I found the culperate!

Joshua Lester jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
Thu Aug 9 16:34:09 UTC 2012


Wow!
That's terrible!
Blessings, Joshua

On 8/9/12, Chun Chao <zerone1683 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Joshua:
>
> During shopping season of last year between Thanksgiving and Christmas when
> I was looking for laundry appliances because mine had worn out, I came
> across an inaccessible website with one of the larger home improvement
> companies as well
> Namely, it was www.lowes.com and I reported the issue to the National
> Center
> to have the issue looked into.
> I have not revisited the website since the incident and as a result Lowes
> lost me as a potential customer.
> Thought I share the experience of running into an inaccessible website.
>
> Regards,
> C.C. Alan
> Northern Nevada NFB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Joshua Lester
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 6:40 AM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] Ah HA! I found the culperate!
>
> I asked about Flash Websites, and why Jaws couldn't read them, in an
> earlier
> thread!
> Well: I've found the main culperate in inaccessible Websites!
> www.wix.com
> Wix has made all of their Websites, including this one, inaccessible with
> screenreaders!
> http://www.bibleway.ca
> The site that I used in the earlier thread, www.altitudeworship.com is also
> powered by Wix!
> We need to do something about this!
> You may think this is off topic for the list, because these two sites are
> for churches, but I know of some colleges, that use this same company, to
> make their Websites inaccessible.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
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