FW: USA: Online book-sharing service for the blind borrows a page from Napster

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Amanda:

I think the issues that have been identified as problems with the 
membership application on BookShare are OS independent. The verbiage could 
be simpler, and the edit fields better located  and provided with better 
prompts. It's just a so-so writing job, as was this paragraph! <grin>

BookShare is already running unix of some kind. I think it may be FreeBSD, 
but I'm not sure. I've already provided some security analysis to them, 
and I've advised them to move to mailman and leave Topica in the dust. Not 
that Topica is inaccessible. Only when you have to use the Topica web page 
to you get to groan through those endless navbars. Still, they could do 
this themselves nicely.

Other issues? Besides the unpacking tool for linux?
 On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, 
Amanda Lee wrote:

> Hmmm, I haven't tried using lynx to login and have accounts for bookshare
> as member and as volunteer.
> 
> I can tell you that there are problems even with a windblows Screen Reader
> with filling out the Basic Publish form so it ain't accessible to Linux
> nor to Windblows.
> 
> Go figure!
> 
> A few of us chided them a bit this week on the bookshare list to go to a
> Linux Server.
> 
> What did we get?
> 
> A bunch of duuhhhhhhhhhhh ! ! ! dead air! ! !
> 
> I think that Peter had one of his budies code up the pages and looks like
> they don't know much about web Accessibility.
> 
> I agree that there's no reason why a site which promotes etext shouldn't
> be at least accessible to all Platforms of personal computers.
> 
> I sure wish I could make it to CSUN cuz I'd be biting their heels!
> 
> Amanda Lee
> 
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				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

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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