[vicsireland] Re: Irish Rail website update
- From: Tony Murray <tony.g.murray@xxxxxx>
- To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:02:26 +0100
Hi Mark,
That is really excellent news.
Irish Rail have always been fantastic when it comes to assistance at train
stations etc. It is great to see that they are taking on board the needs of
VIPs who are trying to access their other services... Excuse the terrible
pun.
A big thanks is due to CFIT for their work on this. Of course VICS will
help in anyway it can, when it comes to testing the new site down the
line... There's another.
Well done Mark and Josh.
Cheers,
Tony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Magennis" <Mark.magennis@xxxxxxx>
To: "Vics Mailing List" <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 2:46 PM
Subject: [vicsireland] Irish Rail website update
> Dear all,
>
> A while back, there was much talk about the unavailability of Irish
> Rail's online timetable on the "visual impaired" version of their
> website. Since then, NCBI CFIT have been in contact with Irish Rail
> and are now working with them to improve the accessibility of all
> aspects of their website.
>
> The situation at the moment is that Irish Rail are fully committed to
> accessibility. They are undertaking a complete redesign of their
> website and a key consideration is that that the new site will be
> fully accessible. To get the ball rolling, they came in yesterday for
> a "user experience" session at CFIT's new dedicated user testing
> facility within NCBI's offices in Whitworth Road. They were able to
> experience, first hand, what it is like for a vision impaired person
> to access their site using a screen reader. They learned a lot about
> the kind of problems that arise and the extent of the difficulties.
> This has given them a greater insight into accessibility from the
> website user's point of view. We now intend to continue working with
> them during their redevelopment process, providing accessibility
> expertise, implementation support and, crucially, more user input. As
> with any serious website development, this will take time, so the
> results will not appear overnight. However, we feel confident that
> this collaboration will result in a site that is fully accessible to
> all Irish Rail's customers.
>
> Mark
>
> Dr. Mark Magennis
> Director of the Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT)
> National Council for the Blind of Ireland
> Whitworth Road, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland
> www.cfit.ie
>
> mark.magennis@xxxxxxx tel: +353 (0)71 914 7464
>
>
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