This is all very helpful and I will pass the thread contents on but in the meantime I have a response to the last time I passed the thread contents on: it seems the real problem is links, and the worst of it is uninformative links which, when read, simply say "click here" to a text reader, for that could describe a link to anywhere or anything. Many of the visually impaired will have special text readers and indeed in some cases braille generators which offer them more suitable functionality than things like Viavoice.

Anyway, the comments I have to pass back are: -


"Hi Richard,

you might like to pass back the following tips towards accessibility:

1. The problem of having to plough through so many suprious links before
reaching the core information on the page can easily be solved. At the top
of the page, put an extra link, with alt. text: 'Skip navigation'. Clicking
(or pressing enter) on this should take you to the part of the page where
the thread information begins. Have a look at almost any page on the BBC's
website (but not the BBC Shop), and you'll find practical examples of how
this works.

2. There are still a few links on the pages with alternative text 'Click
Here', and 'More'.   often the wrong part of the sentence has been used for
the alt. text to the link, e.g.

'*Click Here* for Mudcat threads'. ('Mudcat Threads' would be a more
meaningful tag, because it's more informative when read out of context by a
speech screenreader.   

Finally, the most popular screenreader to try the site against would be
'JAWS', which is marketed in America by Freedom Scientific, and in Britain
by Blazie Engineering.

I have to say though, that I visited the site last night and found its
accessibility vastly improved from what I remember it to have been. The
principal reason for this is the use of meaningful alternative text tags.

Please keep it up. You're definitely getting there.

Thanks"