Comments on: Websites: Accessibility standards http://archive.regulationroom.org/air-travel-accessibility/draft-summary/websites-accessibility-standards/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=websites-accessibility-standards The Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing to require that many air travel websites, as well as automated airport check-in kiosks, be made accessible to people with disabilities. What should the standards for web and kiosk accessibility be? Which websites and how many kiosks should be covered? How long should companies have to make the changes? Data about the benefits, costs, and feasibility of these changes will be very important to DOT’s final decisions. Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:24:15 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jbh249 http://archive.regulationroom.org/air-travel-accessibility/draft-summary/websites-accessibility-standards/#comment-305 jbh249 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:46:30 +0000 http://archive.regulationroom.org/air-travel-accessibility/?p=987#comment-305 Hi ruediix, at this point in the process, the focus is on making sure the summary includes everything that was raised in the comments on the different posts. This is not the time to raise new points or re-hash old arguments. If you think we missed something that you or someone else mentioned in the comments before these draft summaries were posted, let us know! If you wish to comment on the substance of the proposed rule, you can still do that by the end of the day today at Regulations.gov.

]]> By: ruediix http://archive.regulationroom.org/air-travel-accessibility/draft-summary/websites-accessibility-standards/#comment-304 ruediix Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:19:50 +0000 http://archive.regulationroom.org/air-travel-accessibility/?p=987#comment-304 W3.org has some automated tests for accessability handling of web pages. It would be very useful to mandate the passage of these tests.

Note, most of the current web sites fail the tests for standards compliance, thus inevitably failing these tests as well.

Industry may be resistant to this change without full explanation of how it opens new customers to their service, and how that is a major advantage to them and will pay back many fold the expense of web-developer time.

]]> By: ruediix http://archive.regulationroom.org/air-travel-accessibility/draft-summary/websites-accessibility-standards/#comment-303 ruediix Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:10:47 +0000 http://archive.regulationroom.org/air-travel-accessibility/?p=987#comment-303 TTS is NOT equally effecitve for blind persons with High Functioning Autism, as it does not provide editing capabilities, and involves talking to a live person, which can be intimidating.

It is also more costly in the long term because it requires paid workers or risks the problems with broken voice mail systems.

Additionally it does not have the functionality of a web site, and does not ensure that prices available on the web sites are available by this means. This produces a divide based on disability that is unacceptable.

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