This week in unplanned accessibility testing.

Another fabulous moment of taking longer than advertised and still not accomplishing a task, a fabulous moment to follow up from a report at a meeting and one fun item!

1. The Survey: RantWoman has a lot to say about lots of things and RantWoman is quite willing to say things all over surveys. RantWoman is even willing to say things vehemently when she wades into a survey only to find a thicket of accessibility problems, "unknown script call" JAWS errors when trying to refresh a screen, and general conniption generation.

RantWoman received such as survey from a division of her alma mater where she has in fact worked and taken classes but did not receive a degree. RantWoman has topical work experience. RantWoman even has opinions about other topics the survey asks about. RantWoman can read enough of the survey to tell this. RantWoman lost patience about three screens in after trying to cope visually. RantWoman decided just to write the office that sent her the survey.

Dear office, if you send me back a survey that complies with existing accessibility standards, I will be happy to complete your survey. Here is why else you might care about my opinion.

PS. If you decide to make an accessible version of this survey, please distribute it to the whole list because RantWoman knows other accessibility tool users who may also be in your sample pool.

PPS as long as you might be revising the survey anyway, consider adding an option for people to answer the same questions about other schools besides the ones you list.

Thank you very much

Sincerely,

RantWoman.

2. An #a11y facepalm moment, for once unconnected to RantWoman's faith community:

Question from RantWoman at a presentation about a transportation demo project specifically aimed at people with disabilities: does the internet interface, either app or browser based conform to any existing Accessibility standards?"

Answer: "I don't know."

Mumblings from the room about people having trouble reading really simple design because of bad contrast.

Mumblings afterward from RantWoman what if a social service employee or a customer's family member with accessibility concerns is scheduling someone a ride?

#Facepalm because you know, people with disabilities #PWD and governmental purchasers who MIGHT be expected to know enough to ask except the demop project has not gotten to the governmental purchaser point yet.


3. On the up side, speaking of the faith community,  and to make up for a number of also pending accessibility rants, in a conversation about selection of an online conferencing tool, RantWoman was very happy to be able to say "That one sounds great because blind consumer groups already use it!"