Problem with Mailman

[Janina Sajka]

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.
> 
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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