{"id":686,"date":"2009-05-21T02:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2024-11-26T02:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T02:26:51","slug":"if-it-isnt-accessible-it-has-no-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/if-it-isnt-accessible-it-has-no-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Se n\u00e3o estiver acess\u00edvel, n\u00e3o tem valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day a friend of mine tried once again to interest me in\u00a0World Ventures<\/a>. He had tried once before \u2013 asking me to look at their Web site and see how it could be improved for accessibility. I did and the site had several flaws. I made contact with World Ventures\/Rovia developers offering some suggestions which they apparently ignored.
This time my friend forwarded a\u00a0new web site showcasing Dream Trips<\/a>\u00a0and a PDF presentation. The new Dream Trips site is entirely in Flash that is not accessible. The PDF was scanned images so again, I couldn\u2019t read it. Basically, the company has become less accessible, rather than more accessible. And they give no sign of being interested in making their services accessible to the blind \u2013 perhaps thinking, erroneously, that blind folks don\u2019t travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There really isn\u2019t any excuse for not being accessible. ADA became law twenty years ago. The Internet accessibility rules \u2013 Section 508 \u2013 are more than a dozen years old. All of the major players \u2013 Microsoft, Google, Adobe, etc. have made their products accessible to adaptive technologies. Every major company has also worked to make its sites accessible. Sometimes we had to hound them a bit, but after a while, they got it. Accessibility is a matter of following a few simple rules. All the tools are available. There is really no incremental cost. If the\u00a0World Ventures\/Rovia group<\/a>\u00a0wants to look like a big player they need to comply with these accessibility rules like the real big players do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s really more than that. The WV business is travel and the differentiator is that everyone gets to be his or her own travel agent, with a full travel booking web site and access to all the world\u2019s reservation systems. They offer a couple hundred \u201cDream Trips\u201d which are packaged vacations with first class accommodations at bargain prices. And they are a network marketing business, allowing people to earn income by involving other people in the program. They may not believe it, but this is a program blind folks would like. We do travel \u2013 some of us pretty extensively. I probably log more than fifty thousand air miles a year on business and try to take my family on a couple of resort vacations every year. I\u2019m by no means an exception. Since ADA made accessibility the law and adaptive technologies made the logistics easier, blind folks travel a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We blind folks are also naturals for network marketing businesses. We work well from our homes and most of us have developed the kind of social networking skills it takes to succeed in this type of business. But the current non-accessible offering from World Ventures\/Rovia is a non-starter. It casts the shadow of discrimination over everything the company does. And it does not bode well for the company\u2019s long term success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure my friend is embarrassed that he tried to get me involved with a company that scorns accessibility. To me, they are yesterday\u2019s news. Modern, successful companies \u2013 including many travel companies \u2013 make accessibility a priority. World Ventures gets a resounding thumbs down from this corner.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outro dia, um amigo meu tentou mais uma vez me interessar pela World Ventures. Ele j\u00e1 havia tentado uma vez antes...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_convertkit_action_broadcast_export":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,29],"tags":[316,315],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-sero","tag-section-508","tag-world-ventures"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":31,"label":"Accessibility"},{"value":29,"label":"Serotek"}],"post_tag":[{"value":316,"label":"Section 508"},{"value":315,"label":"World Ventures"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mike Calvo","author_link":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/author\/mike-calvo\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":31,"name":"Accessibility","slug":"accessibility","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":31,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":50,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":31,"category_count":50,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Accessibility","category_nicename":"accessibility","category_parent":0},{"term_id":29,"name":"Serotek","slug":"sero","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":99,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":29,"category_count":99,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Serotek","category_nicename":"sero","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":316,"name":"Section 508","slug":"section-508","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":316,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":315,"name":"World Ventures","slug":"world-ventures","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":315,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pneumasolutions.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}