By patrick | Published:
July 27, 2007
I’ve looked at six of the 2008 Presidential candidates’ website, examining them to see how accessible the sites are. Mind you, I just did a cursory overview and I’ve summarized my findings in the table below. The original reviews are still available here on my site in the “Accessibility” category. Since some time has passed [...]
By patrick | Published:
July 9, 2007
John Edwards’ campaign site is the subject of this quick accessibility overview.
Tabbing through main navigation menu , one finds the nested unordered lists do not become visible when tabbing through. A keyboard user would not know where he is on the page without the fly-out effect working with focus was set on the nested list [...]
By patrick | Published:
July 2, 2007
Governor Mitt Romney’s campaign site has, like the others I’ve looked at, some strikes against it with regards to accessibility. His home page has an auto-starting audio clip of Governor Romney thanking people for visiting the site and asking for donations to the campaign. There are no stop, start, pause or volume controls. Luckily it’s [...]
By patrick | Published:
June 25, 2007
Continuing my look at United States Presidential campaign websites, I took a look at Rudy Giuliani’s site. Like the other sites I’ve seen, better attention needs to be given to the use of alt tags. The main image on Giuliani’s site has no alt tag. This is the image that serves as the link to [...]
By patrick | Published:
June 23, 2007
John McCain’s website is a challenge. There are some fundamental problems with it.
First off, there is no DOCTYPE. For those not aware, a DOCTYPE is the statement that tells a browser, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc., what type of code the page is written in and how to present it. It is the first and most [...]
By patrick | Published:
June 22, 2007
This is the second campaign website I’m looking at to see how accessible it is. Barack Obama’s site, I’ll say, seems to be better than Senator Clinton’s. I think they’ve done a better job of providing information without relying on images. There’s some room for improvement, though, as a quick check shows a few alt [...]
By patrick | Published:
June 21, 2007
New feature today. I’m looking at different campaign websites and noting some violations of accessibility guidelines. First off, due to the attention she’s getting is Senator Hillary Clinton’s page announcing her new campaign theme song. Go to the page and you are presented right off the bat with the music playing. There is no way [...]