Disabuse them of this false notion. On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > well, they are still working on it. Notice, though, that accessibilty and jaws > appear to be kind of synonymous. Maybe it's just because they don't have people > working on fixing the site using other access technology. But I am testing it > out for them periodically and they know i'm not using jaws. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:33:57 -0400 > From: RAY MORGAN <RMORGAN1@email.usps.gov> > To: chomiak <chomiak@chartermi.net> > Cc: HAROLD STARK <HSTARK@email.usps.gov> > Subject: Another update on Postal Store on usps.com > > > Cheryl, > > Actually, we've made some good progress with the Postal Store web site. > We are able to use JAWS to enter the Postal Store and make a stamp > purchase using "Fast Stamps" (monitor turned off). Work still remains > to be done on the site. For one thing, the site times out too quickly > and doesn't ask the user if more time is needed. This isn't good and > will be fixed in the coming weeks. > > Regarding JavaScript, our eCommerce engine is heavily oriented toward > JavaScript. We don't anticipate changing that in the near future. > However, we did spend considerable effort changing the site to make it > more accessible. The feedback you gave us about being redirected to the > home page has been passed to our web developers. Hopefully they will > have some ideas on how to quickly resolve the problem. > > If you have the inclination, I would appreciate your taking another look > at the site and letting us know what happens. > > The site is pre-Section 508; but we want it to be accessible. At this > point the site is more accessible to at least a significant segment of > the population who use text-to-speech readers. Thanks again for working > with us! > > Ray Morgan > USPS > > > -----Original Message----- > From: chomiak@chartermi.net at INTERNET > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 4:24 PM > To: Morgan, Ray H - Washington, DC > Subject: we seem to be going in the wrong direction here! > > > Just tried the site again with links-2.1pre2. Hity the link for "buy > stams and more" then the link for "stamps. got redirected to the home > page with a whole bunch of instructions about resetting my browser. > before it was at least getting as far as putting things in my cart. This > sure doesn't seem to me like a step in the right direction, unless we're > headed there in round-about fashion. I'm still not sure why you all are > so dedicated to using javascript either, though the browser I am using > does support it to some extent. > > Cheryl > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org