It doesn’t help to start a communication by wielding a stick!
You have a point of view. You are welcome to air it as long as you don’t
seek to deprive others of that same right.
And blame culture has a stench of self righteousness that I wouldn’t usually
give the time of day to.
In the name of the law one can self righteously call down and direct blame
and associated punishment. But the spirit of the law is to preserve and
protect ourselves in a collective responsibility.
Now the issue of alt text - I don’t get it. One can apply enough alt text to
enables navigation - but if I want the story of the pic I can just use text.
Text is accessible one way or another to many but not all.
My 27 yr old daughter cant read and is completely deaf. I can tell you that
I don’t begin to wage war to get her included but I have her on a Mac and
she gets around amazingly well considering. There a loads of things that
Apple do that are dumb - like allowing uncompressed movies to be emailed
from photobooth with one click. Maybe I should ask them to give more value
and support to the folks who do these things so that they get drawn into
being a valued and valuable part of their team, their company, and the
Community of humanity.
When people are blamed and punished - or indeed forced against their will
into doing the ‘right thing’ - or else! - it is always a short term seeming
gain with a liability of long term pain to follow.
If you get on with Dreamweaver and don’t get on with Freeway - well - go for
what works for you. I don’t enjoy working in DW so I dont.
Ok - I took the bait - I responded as if what you said had any seriousness
to it. Its nothing personal.
You can just ask for what you want. More characters allowed in alt text
fields. But be aware that the whole sense and flow of the page might get
screwed if the web developers put a story behind every picture. I don’t know
about that. These things are always a balancing of feature and liability.
Supportive criticism is like good surgery practice. It cuts only to heal -
within a sense of relationship and trust.
Adversarial criticism has no regard for the truth of life as relationship or
a process of growing and maintaining trust and I regard it as a severe
learning disability of delusional proportion.
I do offer alt text - for those who don’t get the picture.
It says something like ‘there must be a better way of looking at this’.
And no you cant be an asshole - but we can all seem to act like one when we
get locked into our own programming.
Have a good day
regards
Brian
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Ok, I admit, I am both new to Freeway, very critical of it now and maybe an
asshole as well, but it is my job to be critical. Your life could depend on it
some day. I do something with microsurgery that no one else on Earth can do or
does.
Freeway’s programmers have made quite a serious mistake in their programming.
One that must be fixed within days. I am giving notice on this. And honestly,
I expect an update to fix this severe problem by the next weekend.
How dare the programmers at Freeway be so lazy in that they would stop the
blind and other handicapped people from viewing the internet in the means
available to them?
I am speaking of the “alt text” slot as it is normally called. For each and
every image on every web page on the net, there is a slot that is meant to be
used for the actual description of the image so that the handicapped can have
their special viewers/readers “see” that image too.
Hmmm, let’s see, what is the saying? One picture is worth a thousand words? Or
is it? Not according to the programmers at Freeway!!!
There is not supposed to be any sort of limit to the “alt text” box and that
is left only up to the person making the website. The web allows for a
sentence, a paragraph, or many paragraphs. Personally, I do not know what the
limit is, but it is a lot. Certainly more than 1000 words!
Try getting in two sentences with Freeway 5 non-pro!
This is a serious screw up!!!
In the USA we have laws and rights to protect the handicapped. They must be
allowed “public access” or there can be a fine and forced changes made. Or
both.
In all seriousness, Freeway should be fined a million bucks/pounds at least
for creating an application that creates a definite hardship on the
handicapped. Or have the product pulled from circulation until it is fixed.
I think this is a serious violation of the web standards!
Why would the programmers do such a thing? Is there a valid excuse? How can
there be? This is like trying to sell an electrical product without the UL
listing. Who shipped this version out without checking it out first?
Robert
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