Accessibility annoyance of the day

[Karen G. Schneider]

The Center for Women Veterans, http://www.va.gov/womenvet/

Several key documents, including a FAQ, are only in Microsoft Word!

Note: I am not anti-Microsoft or anti-Word. But for cryin' out loud,
even providing these documents in PDF would be better than only in Word.
This site is supposedly reaching out to women veterans who may need
emergency health care, who need to know their benefits, who could be
homeless women sitting at public computers... good grief. Your tax
dollars at work! (And how hard could it be to generate a 25-question FAQ
into HTML?!)

Oh, the irony: they link to their own Accessibility Guidelines: 
http://www.va.gov/accessible/

Yes, I wrote them (and among other things, said that as a veteran, I
hoped they would make this page accessible to my sister veterans). 

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