Mailman's UI could definitely be improved to come into conformance with WAI guidelines. Question is, who's going to do it and submit the patch? Rejean Proulx writes: > You are right about mailman. I find I just have to count. You are right, > it is embarrassing, and you are right, it happens in explorer. I am glad to > hear that explorer isn't the only bad guy. Can't blame Gates for this one, > unfortunately. The pages in Mailman need alt-tags I suspect. It bugs me > too. I think the mailman developers could fix this easily with a few > alt-tags. That is the only part of Mailman that is not as accessible as it > should > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford at Starpower.net> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 6:02 AM > Subject: Problem with Mailman > > > I am using mailman admistration for a listserv. When I go to the page > where I can select what to do with messages that have been bounced for my > dconsideration, I get a series of options going like this: defer accept > reject or discard. So far so good. Unfortunately then i see 4 numbered > selections in Lynx which are not 1 2 3 4 but rather the sequencial links > which you might see on any web page in lynx. I can guess at the right one > and hit enter on it, but does anyone know if there is anything being done > to allow a user to curser down and hit return on a text label so I could be > sure? Is this bothering anyone else? > > Oh yeah, don't blame it on lynx because internet explorer does the same > thing by listing the options and then checkboxes without lables. I think I > get it right most of the time both in Windows and in Linux but it has > caused a couple of embarrassing moments with members of the listserv who > were not happy to hae their stuff rejected. > > -- Charlie Crawford. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 1.732 (20040422) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.nod32.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
