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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6When you're done pointing the finger, perhaps you'll do something about the inaccessibility of the www.indymedia.ie site. It fails the most basic accessibility guidelines of the W3C - you can test it yourself using:
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
When is indymedia.ie going to meet these accessibility standards?
off you go
it's $150 per hour.
Not only is the website unusable by a disabled person to the same extent as an "able-bodied" person (whatever that means - since age is a disability), but I notice there is no language option for Shelta, the Traveller's Language. It should be included as an option like Irish or English.
Hello? "WWW" - the first "W" stands for "Worldwide" - that means everybody. There's enough social exclusion around without cyberspace helping it along.
"PC's" comment "off you go" is the equivalent of "build your own effin' wheelchair ramp".
Nor is it necessary to pay a consultant 150 per hour.
Following basic good practices in coding is all that is required - either build them into the publishing engine on the site or write a lint that checks for accessibility features BEFORE allowing publication - rejecting anything that's not accessible and telling the writer how to fix it first.
Having conducted an accessibility review of indymedia.ie, there are different accessibility issues, some more easily fixed, and some more important, than others. It wouldn't be very easy to all meet the accessibility requirements of people with visual, motor and cognitive disabilities, but you could easily start by meeting the visual problems presented by the use of uploaded images.
In the "upload" section, why don't indymedia ENFORCE (not make optional) the ALT attribute (60 character limit) to explain briefly what's going on in the image. Image filenames are not good enough, but ALT="No Bin Tax sprayed slogan" , ALT="traveller kids on burntout JCB", would be.
The postings that contain page after page of uploaded images of street art with no comment in particular are utterly useless from an accessibility point of view. In fact, the ALT tag would be useful from an "able-bodied" viewpoint too.
Didn't you just find that David Brent comment about "Stephen Hawkings Football Boots" hilarious?
That's all very interesting, but it has nothing to do with the Pitstop Ploughshares, which is what this story was supposed to be about. Why don't you contact the indymedia ie 'Tech List'? I'm sure some interesting changes could be worked out regarding how the site works.
Would that not be more appropriate than derailing this thread?