From: Kelly Pierce 
Subject: access changes at the chicago tribune on the web
The Chicago Tribune company issued the following statement on Wednesday, may
7, 1997:
     
     To better serve its visually impaired users, the Chicago Tribune on 
     the Internet - http:\\www.chicago.tribune.com --in the near future 
     will offer non-graphical identification and/or description of 
     hypertext links in order to make navigation of the site simpler. The 
     link to the Site's index will also be repositioned so that it becomes 
     one of the first items to appear on homepage of the Site.  In 
     addition, a user Ombudsman will be available to users with 
     disabilities to address their concerns relating to the Site. These 
     changes are being made because a visually impaired user, Kelly Pierce, 
     expressed concerns regarding these issues.
     
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Currently, the entire contents of the print edition of the newspaper are on
the web as well as loads of additional information.  This resource has opened
up employment opportunities as the entire jobs section, including the Sunday
classifids are on the web.  the search engine for employment listings is
compatible with older versions of Lynx.  Unfortunately, access to many of the
sections of the newspaper, such as business or local news, is limited only to
users of Lynx version 2.7, as the several levels one needs to go through
require browsers that support frames.  Also, some links on pages are not
labeled in text, causing confusion for the blind computer user.  Only version
2.7 of Lynx can access these frames.  It is the presentation of information
that is the barrier.  
kelly 
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