And I would suggest that some OPACs aren't even accessible to sighted
people. (Hey, it IS Friday!)
Sharon M. Foster, 99% Librarian (waiting for the official okey-dokey
to change it to 100%)
Speaker-to-Computers
http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Tim Spalding <tim_at_librarything.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Walker, David <dwalker_at_calstate.edu> wrote:
>>But it seems that many, if not most, 'next-generation' catalog systems implement Javascript without regard to accessibility considerations.
>
> There's a lot of truth to that, but it should be noted that the
> "last-generation" systems were also accessibility disasters, just in
> different ways. For Library for Libraries—which *is* Javascript—we
> spent a lot of effort to create an accessible, non-JavaScript version.
> The absurdity of it was that LTFL plugs into your current catalog, and
> they're often not accessible enough to get a blind person to the point
> that they'd even know whether LTFL was accessible or not.
>
> Tim
>
Received on Fri May 22 2009 - 15:26:54 EDT