{"id":678,"date":"2011-12-21T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2011-12-21T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:48:41","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-more-accessible-web-be-an-accessibility-elf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-more-accessible-web-be-an-accessibility-elf\/","title":{"rendered":"All I want for Christmas is a More Accessible Web &#8211; Be an Accessibility Elf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to do something meaningful for the holidays?  How about sending an email to an inaccessible web site, asking them to make their site accessible?  I just did it, myself!  If you want to do this too, head to the great list just published over at WebAim of <a href=\"http:\/\/webaim.org\/blog\/alexa-100-accessibility-errors\/\">Accessibility Errors Found on the Alexa Top 100 Web Sites<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I picked a site, pulled it up in my browser, and found their customer service email form.  Then I sent the message below (this is a generic version in case you want to copy and use it yourself):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear FOO.COM. <\/p>\n<p>I noticed that your website has accessibility errors (it is not accessible to people with disabilities).  This is a U.S. Federal requirement.  Other organizations, like Target, have been sued for this.  Your web site appears on a recently published list where everyone can see that your home page has at least XX accessibility errors.  http:\/\/webaim.org\/blog\/alexa-100-accessibility-errors\/<\/p>\n<p>Most of these errors are quite simple to fix.  I bet your web staff already knows how to fix them.<\/p>\n<p>Could you please fix these issues, so that the FOO.COM website can be accessible to everyone?  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, that felt so good, I think I&#8217;ll send another one (or two, or three).<\/p>\n<p>Happy Holiday&#8217;s Y&#8217;all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to do something meaningful for the holidays?  How about sending an email to an inaccessible web site, asking them to make their site accessible?  I just did it, myself!  If you want to do this too, head to the great list just published over at WebAim of <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/webaim.org\/blog\/alexa-100-accessibility-errors\/\">Accessibility Errors Found on the Alexa Top 100 Web Sites<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I picked a site, pulled it up in my browser, and found their customer service email form.  Then I sent the message below (this is a generic version in case you want to copy and use it yourself):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}