Is this another case of accessibility fail?

[kestrell]

There is this BBC post about an exhibit of blind photographers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8466714.stm
with what seems to be a video of someone explaining about techniques, but I can't find a way to click on the video so I can hear it.

Am I missing something?

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Yeah, you're missing the ability to navigate a site that's not designed to be used by blind people, because, after all, why would blind people be interested in photography?

*groan*

BBC should really supply a link to this on every page, but you can substitute
/low/
for
/hi/
in any BBC url to strip out the inaccessible stuff. Of course that includes stripping out the Flash player, which was the point.

The BBC site *should* have linked to the BBC4 radio special on the exhibit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pxng2

The actual exhibit's site is
http://www.photovoice.org/html/projects/photovoiceprojects/ukandireland/sightsunseen/index.html

Warning: many of the links are also inaccessible. It's a spiderweb of despair, really.

[kestrell]

Wow. The BBC is usually better than this. Oh well. I'm trying to skip getting involved in anything that will make me annoyed or stressed, as I really just want to be calm and rested for surgery tomorrow. Of course, I've already flouted that resolution twice today, the first in trying to cancel an order I placed to one of those awful independent living aids places, where I placed an order on Dec. 31, got a confirmaiton e-mail, and have heard nothing since. Of course, PWD don't really expect service as good as able-bodied folks expect. Maybe I should gjust get offline and fo ginish reading _Murder Must Advertise_; a nice clean murder or two is so much more upbeat.