[Chapter-delegates] Happy new year!

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

Happy new year to everybody!

Following Kathy's Onto 2015! HNY
<https://twitter.com/KathrynCBrown/status/552942319238799360>! I ended
up on this page:
http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-numbers.

Wow a lot of info, a lot of figures, some meaningless but some
impressive. And a great artwork.

From there I payed a visit to our home page
<http://www.internetsociety.org/> . New layout
big images, not too much text ...

From there I checked weather we still think accessibility is
important. Yes we do "Internet Accessibility: Internet use by
persons with disabilities: Moving Forward"
<http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-accessibility-internet-use-persons-disabilities-moving-forward>
is still out there.

There is an ongoing promise since the last relaunch of our
precious home site that we at ISOC will follow the principles
we published in the before mentioned document.

The most simple, famous and first rule to achieve accessibility
is "Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#text-equiv>
it can be changed into other forms people need, such as
large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.
<http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#text-equiv>"
HTML, the source language of Web pages provides easy
means to do so.

After so many years of discussion, delay, lip prayers one
has to learn things are getting worse. Nearly all alternative
texts for pictures on "http://www.internetsociety.org/" are
"" (nullstring, nothing, nix nada!). You might argue, that the
images are decorative only. Hm, they cover 80% of the
page - so even this should be explained.

But on the top of the tops you find
http://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-numbers.
All info in a pixle (png) file no alt text no underlying link,
and all text within the graph in a small - even for somebody
who is not visually impaired - nearly unreadable print.

This wonderful artwork would have been the case for
a wonderful technology - part of HTML5 and processed by
all modern browsers - called SVG! With at least the
following advantages:

  * provides better accessibility
  * provides searchability
  * can be infinitely scaled (without breaking apart into pixle squares)

I wish you all a usable and accessible 2015 - at least outside ISOC,

Klaus

PS.: In case you want to read the contents of
http://www.internetsociety.org/doc/internet-society-numbers
I recommend
http://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/Internet%20Society%20By%20The%20Numbers.pdf

-- 
Klaus Birkenbihl
Treasurer and Board member
Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
c/o ict-Media GmbH
http://www.isoc.de/

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