interestingly, I was told a while back that much of the usps site is 508 compliant. I asked, is it accessible and was told that some of it is and those parts that are not 508 compliant are not doable and those parts that are not accessible are built that way because they have to be or because they were built before the law. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@chartermi.net> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: Re: Links (with an I), Lynx (with a Y) and inaccessible sites This would have to be done in some very organized way and would have to have some teeth or some kind of impact--speaking to the comment about "inaccessible is unacceptable." For instance, I challenged schwans for two years re: the changes they made that rendered their site inaccessible; they kept telling me they were working on it, which I knew couldn't really be the case or they would have made some changes to the site. frankly, I don't think they cared because people could call and order by phone and even if all blind people getting schwans had stopped in protest, it wouldn't make much difference in their profit. I now can access and order from schwans with links, but links certainly isn't a cure-all for the problem. as was said, the usps site is just the tip of the iceberg. the reason it is getting so much attention is because there is some willingness to try to make it accessible; a lot of website designers frankly don't care that much about accessibility. And many of those who do make some effort honestly believe that if they are accessible for jaws they are accessible. Cheryl _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list