[BC] Another BAD website.......

[Tom Dimeo]

I am a blind person and I have been frustrated by websites 
that are inaccessible to my screen reading software.  
However, I would not want *any* government regulation to 
require that webmasters *must* adhere to website design just 
to satisfy my requirements.  I think the ADA was a bad idea 
and doesn't do much good other than cost buisness and 
government money.

When I encounter a website that is not accessible to me, and 
I want to look at it bad enough, I'll write to the webmaster 
and ask if it would be possible to make changes to make it 
accessible.  On the Macromedia website they have a lot of 
help on how to make screen readers work with Flash and I 
don't think it is very difficult to do so.

Other blind people obviously don't agree with my philosophy 
but I never saw any good in antagonizing someone.  It seems 
to me that some people were born to advocate (annoy) but 
that's not me.

Tom

Harrisburg Pennsylvania

** Original Message From: Cowboy **
>On Wednesday 05 October 2005 10:45 am, WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
>>In a message dated 10/04/2005 11:34:49 PM Eastern Daylight 
Time, 
>>harold at hallikainen.com writes:
>>
>>> Then there are those websites where there's no way in 
other than through
>>>  the flash. They don't make it to my bookmark list or 
supplier list...
>>>  
>>>  Harold
>>
>>There ought to be something in the ADA (Americans with 
Disabilities Act) 
>>against that sort of thing. Blind users, who rely on 
Braille text display or 
>>spoken text, cannot use those sites at all. There is no 
text, so the display is 
>>blank and the voice, silent.
>
>I truly hope your intent is to be facetious, else I'm moving 
>my servers ( and all related business ) off shore.
>
>While I'll easily agree that all the dancing bears and 
>flaming fireballs are simply a tribute to the "webmasters" 
>ability to point-and-click and absolutely nothing more, you 
>can't possibly be serious about the U.S. govt. again trying 
>to regulate the whole world, and all of the sovereign nations 
>in it ?