[Accessibility_sig] Overstock.com accessible?

[Bianca Taulman]

For whatever reason, they keep the commercials on the site if you're
interested.

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?PAGE=STATICPOPUP&STA_ID=6510



-----Original Message-----
From: accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org
[mailto:accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org] On Behalf Of Jon
Gibbins (dotjay)
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:30 PM
To: Discussion list for web and software accessibility issues
Subject: Re: [Accessibility_sig] Overstock.com accessible?

Charlene Zvolanek wrote:
> Just a cursory review using the HTML Validator 0.8.3.3 for Firefox,
reveals missing alt tags, depreciated tags, inappropriate attributes,
tables that get closed without ever being open, javascripts with no type
designation... 
> I would say that overstock.com would not meet the standards. 1199
errors reported.

10 errors, 1189 warnings (mostly unescaped ampersands), 406 access 
warnings, 1 JavaScript error, 12 JavaScript warnings... and that's just 
the home page. Not a good start, eh?

Missing alts, even on their logo and pecial offers! No heading elements.

Form fields not marked up as well as they could be. No indication of 
location when tabbing through a page that is a sea of links. Turning off

CSS is quite fun. Reliance on JavaScript in areas, including search
results.

Anyone else think that this is a "ha ha, we're better than Target" 
marketing approach?


Jon

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