[nfb-talk] Inaccessible sites

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It is so frustrating when you find out that someone is putting
information on their site about blindness, blind people or anything
you would like to read, but when you click the link, most of these
sites are not accessible. I am sure that there are people and places
that offer help to others for doing this, but I feel that the general
public and even web developers need greater awareness and support and
even pointing out that their site is not accessible. So as blind
people, maybe we can each do more and keep encouraging others to test
a site or give whatever help they can to whoever is interested to
write or talk about us. Hope we can continue talking about this in the
comments and put someideas out, so that we can keep bringing the issue
forward, trying to work at it and keep remembering that something
really needs to be done about this and if we don't take the main role
as blind people, this process may go way slower and more frustrating
for us. The idea number one I am putting here is that each of us who
gets featured in a newspaper, TV or radio station or elsewhere, could
check their website and if it is not accessible and not easy to get
the contact info, to try and point this out to the person who they
come in contact with that wants their story. If they realize that
sites indeed need to become accessible, because many blind people are
using computers with screen readers and many blind friends, relatives
and others may see it by word of mouth or from a site or a group or
page, then it helps them get more visitors and stories and a great
promise that we would indeed keep appreciating their efforts and maybe
even feature them and what they do in some of our magazines and pages,
which would help them keep learning about us further if they indeed
start to follow them.