[vicsireland] Re: Accessible Local Authority forms
- From: "Sarah" <srh.mcnabb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:08:20 -0000
hi barry
I agree about what your saying about people lacking in skills when its comes
to doing things via acessabiliby
regards sarah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry McMullin" <barry.mcmullin@xxxxxx>
To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 6:42 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Re: Accessible Local Authority forms
Hi Cearbhall -
This is probably not what the council or Arts office want to
hear, but the "right" way to do this is to use HTML forms
(conforming, of course, to the applicable HTML accessibility
guidelines). That would give far and away the widest spectrum
accessibility that is practical today. (They may say they don't
have the technical capability or technical staff to do this: but
that's exactly how they got into the problem in the first place.
It is not any easier to do this with Word or PDF - it just seems
more "familiar" to them, but they clearly lack the skills there
also. If they are in the business of interacting with the public
via forms at all, then they need to be in the business of
interacting via accessible forms: which means they have to
acquire or upskill staff with the necessary skills - so that
might as well be "accessible HTML form" skills rather than
"accessible Word or PDF form" skills because they will then get a
good deal more bang for the bucks they will have to spend
anyway...)
Just my 2c worth.
- Barry.
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