Euro Election candidates and the internet PDF Print E-mail

Published by: The Limerick Blogger

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Date: May 2, 2009

URL: http://www.limerickblogger.ie/blog/2009/05/euro-election-candidates-and-the-internet

"...Brian Crowley: The first thing that caught my eye was the lousy colours on the navigation bar of his website. White text on a light background doesn’t make things easy for someone with a visual impairment. As websites go, it’s pretty boring. I found no references to user interaction via blog, twitter or social networking sites.

...Toireasa Ferris has a snazzy new website. There are however, certain accessibility issues I would have. Most notably, like Fine Gael’s Sean Kelly, the first thing you are hit with is a macromedia flash file (the animated bit) which can play havoc with screen magnification software, and the press archive at the bottom are text in the form of PNG images, which screen readers cannot read without alt text included in the HTML code, which, in this case it is not. She does have a blog however. Unfortunately, as in a number of others, visitor comments are not permitted on the blog..."

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