[thelist] accessibility finding: another victory for the visually impaired

[aardvark]

> From: "Isaac Forman" <isaac at triplezero.com.au>
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> IBM who was contracted to develop the site, claims it needs a cool $2
> million and a year to retrofit ALT tags to the entire site, including
> real-time score pages. But Simon Moran of the Public Access Internet
> Advocacy Centre says the modifications would cost only between $30,000
> and $40,000 to implement. It goes without saying that changes would
> have cost $0 if IBM had correctly used ALT tags the first time around.
> ---
> 
> must be a pretty huge site if they need $30k-$2fuckingmillion to put
> in ALT tags...

yeah, the 'alt' thing ain't hard to do, unless you want to describe 
*every* image... maybe they don't have a field in their db to accept 
descriptions like that, and that's where they get their numbers...

also, it does take time to fix the rest of a page -- adding other 
accessibility features (form things, level 1 WAI stuff, etc.) can be 
time consuming if you have no clue what you're doing, and based 
on what i've seen before, none of them do...