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Human Rights in IrelandIndymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.Julian Assange is finally free ! Tue Jun 25, 2024 21:11 | indy Stand With Palestine: Workplace Day of Action on Naksa Day Thu May 30, 2024 21:55 | indy It is Chemtrails Month and Time to Visit this Topic Thu May 30, 2024 00:01 | indy Hamburg 14.05. "Rote" Flora Reoccupied By Internationalists Wed May 15, 2024 15:49 | Internationalist left Eddie Hobbs Breaks the Silence Exposing the Hidden Agenda Behind the WHO Treaty Sat May 11, 2024 22:41 | indy
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Court must be accessible too all
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Tuesday October 26, 2004 11:59 by Eoin Dubsky
Trident Court Flummoxed by Human Rights Challenge A Scottish anti-nuke activist yesterday told the local court near Faslane nuke base that until the courtroom was accessible to all the public (people in wheelchairs included) it surely couldn't be said to be a place where fair and public tribunals are held. This press release reminds me, I don't recall seeing a ramp or lift at the entrance to Ennis courthouse, where Mary Kelly is on trial again today. Hmmm. TRIDENT PLOUGHSHARES |
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Jump To Comment: 6 5 4 3 2 1That's all very interesting, but it has nothing to do with the Pitstop Ploughshares, which is what this story was supposed to be about. Why don't you contact the indymedia ie 'Tech List'? I'm sure some interesting changes could be worked out regarding how the site works.
Would that not be more appropriate than derailing this thread?
"PC's" comment "off you go" is the equivalent of "build your own effin' wheelchair ramp".
Nor is it necessary to pay a consultant 150 per hour.
Following basic good practices in coding is all that is required - either build them into the publishing engine on the site or write a lint that checks for accessibility features BEFORE allowing publication - rejecting anything that's not accessible and telling the writer how to fix it first.
Having conducted an accessibility review of indymedia.ie, there are different accessibility issues, some more easily fixed, and some more important, than others. It wouldn't be very easy to all meet the accessibility requirements of people with visual, motor and cognitive disabilities, but you could easily start by meeting the visual problems presented by the use of uploaded images.
In the "upload" section, why don't indymedia ENFORCE (not make optional) the ALT attribute (60 character limit) to explain briefly what's going on in the image. Image filenames are not good enough, but ALT="No Bin Tax sprayed slogan" , ALT="traveller kids on burntout JCB", would be.
The postings that contain page after page of uploaded images of street art with no comment in particular are utterly useless from an accessibility point of view. In fact, the ALT tag would be useful from an "able-bodied" viewpoint too.
Didn't you just find that David Brent comment about "Stephen Hawkings Football Boots" hilarious?
Not only is the website unusable by a disabled person to the same extent as an "able-bodied" person (whatever that means - since age is a disability), but I notice there is no language option for Shelta, the Traveller's Language. It should be included as an option like Irish or English.
Hello? "WWW" - the first "W" stands for "Worldwide" - that means everybody. There's enough social exclusion around without cyberspace helping it along.
it's $150 per hour.
off you go
When you're done pointing the finger, perhaps you'll do something about the inaccessibility of the www.indymedia.ie site. It fails the most basic accessibility guidelines of the W3C - you can test it yourself using:
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
When is indymedia.ie going to meet these accessibility standards?