[WEB4LIB] Web/ADA/uh oh...

[Ken Becker]

The site http://www.cast.org/bobby (cast = Center for Applied Special
Technology) allows users to plug in a web site and "Bobby the online
accessibility cop" tells you how accessible the site is.  I put in
www.mtc.ca.gov and Bobby's main complaint to deny a stamp of approval was
the lack of alternate text for some images.  There were also a bunch of
recommendations Bobby made.

The only part of MTC's site I found that referred to schedules was the
link to www.transitinfo.org, which was largely text-based and mostly was
Bobby-approved.

Ken Becker
Menlo Park PL
Menlo Park, CA

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Shirl Kennedy wrote:

> Web focal to blind man's complaint
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> SAN FRANCISCO -- A blind man has filed a complaint against a mass transit
> commission, claiming his inability to access its Web site of bus and train
> schedules violates federal law.
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> USA Today (11/12/98- Updated 02:53 PM ET)
> http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctd831.htm
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> Shirl Kennedy
> Internet Waves columnist
> Information Today
> Best Bet Internet
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0838907121/002-3206652-8002207
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