[Accessibility_sig] Overstock.com accessible?

[Lane, Belinda]

I shop on the site a lot using JAWS and it is tedious. It would be a great help if they would just add headings especially to identify the start of the search results and, good grief, label the links and buttons. I use other strategies to navigate like jumping to lists and tables, skipping chunks of text, using the find function and just knowing the location of the content. My past purchases appear in a well-structured table. I can read it quickly and easily. Amazingly, I find shopping and purchasing from Overstock easier than on Amazon.

The HTML review looked daunting but I think it wouldn't take much to fix the site.

-----Original Message-----
From: accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org [mailto:accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org] On Behalf Of Bianca Taulman
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:10 PM
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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



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[mailto:accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org] On Behalf Of Jon Gibbins (dotjay)
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:30 PM
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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 


-----Original Message-----
From: accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org [mailto:accessibility_sig-bounces at knowbility.org] On Behalf Of Bianca Taulman
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:06 AM
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Subject: [Accessibility_sig] Overstock.com accessible?

While watching TV last night, I saw a commercial for Overstock.com that flashed a wheelchair icon (http://www.pratersmill.org/pm03images/wheelchairsign.gif) which I assume suggested accessibility. After taking a quick glance with the Lynx viewer, it doesn't seem accessible to me! What do yall think about thier effort of marketing as accessible, and do you think they pass?

www.overstock.com

 

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