Comments on: New Format on United Church of Christ Website http://www.uccdm.org/2007/06/12/new-format-on-united-church-of-christ-website/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:27:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: William Brandes http://www.uccdm.org/2007/06/12/new-format-on-united-church-of-christ-website/comment-page-1/#comment-32563 William Brandes Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:21:39 +0000 http://www.uccdm.org/2007/06/12/new-format-on-united-church-of-christ-website/#comment-32563 The initial deployment of the new UCC national website brought on criticism by those noting problems in access and accessibility. The site is built with Micro-media FLASH which is not a native web program. This had the effect of rendering text readers useless and access by those on dial-up frustrating with a page load time of 3 minutes or more. Subsequently, a text links page was created to amend the problem. But, problems remain. My question is, considering I have a vision disability myself, was UCC Disabilities Ministries consulted at all on the development of the new website and requirements that the new website be as accessible as possible to all? And, if not, why not? Thank you. William The initial deployment of the new UCC national website brought on criticism by those noting problems in access and accessibility.

The site is built with Micro-media FLASH which is not a native web program. This had the effect of rendering text readers useless and access by those on dial-up frustrating with a page load time of 3 minutes or more.

Subsequently, a text links page was created to amend the problem. But, problems remain.

My question is, considering I have a vision disability myself, was UCC Disabilities Ministries consulted at all on the development of the new website and requirements that the new website be as accessible as possible to all? And, if not, why not? Thank you. William

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