Practical Web Designer
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:41:36 +0000
8 Comments:
At 10:11 AM, Joe Clark said...“Redundant title attributes” and :focus are not really accessibility problems. Skip-to-content links are unnecessary with well-structured content, which I’m not saying this is. ARIA is much too new to be reliably used. And “no menu heading” on what? (You pretty much can’t use the menus anyway.)
At 10:18 AM, Dennis at Web Axe said...Thanks for commenting, Joe. Since the site does not implement proper headings nor ARIA, skip-to links would be beneficial. “Redundant title attributes” may get in the way of screen readers by content being read twice; it's also a usability nuisance, which is inherently part of accessibility.
At 8:41 PM, said...I would like also to add as a deaf user that none of their audio and video content is accessible to those who cannot hear or have no audio.
At 9:18 PM, Garen said...The sad thing is they probably paid a pretty penny for that site to be developed. One thing that kills me because I know how powerful social networking is, but they don't have their facebook and twitter links at the top. Would it kill them to at least put them at the top if they are already going to make so many errors with the design?
But then again, my sites are not perfect by any means so it is easier to judge rather than do it myself.
Its a shame that it isn't accessible, I personally think it was a well designed site and actually enjoyed using it, I missed Seth winning the gold and was able to check it out on the site.
I agree that handicapped folks should be able to do the same which is a shame if they can't but. If I compare the Winter Olympics site to yahoo I say there is no comparison, the winter olympics one is way much cooler than yahoo's...
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@ No Pun Intended:
To let you know that your using "handicapped folks" is offensive to people with disabilities. I hope you are not intending on keeping calling us like that.
Here's Glenda Watson's blog explaining about proper descriptions of people with disabilities:
http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/2010/what-is-in-a-word-the-evolution-of-disability-language-continues/
Thank you.
"Cripple. Handicapped. Disabled. Physically challenged. Person with a disability. It doesn’t really matter what term is used, does it? After all, is not a rose by any other name still a rose?"
Another blogpost by Glenda Watson to educate about disability language:
http://www.doitmyselfblog.com/2008/what-is-in-a-word-the-evolution-of-disability-language/
ARIA just isn’t applicable and I simply don’t agree that “redundant title attributes” are any problem whatsoever.
You’ve got so much else to choose from in terms of Web inaccessibility here; don’t hitch your wagon to a donkey.
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