[LINK] NSW Election Multilingual information is not accessible

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Mon Mar 7 11:28:15 AEDT 2011


Kim Holburn wrote:
> The Italian one seems to be text.  I can extract text from it with no issues.
> 
> The Chinese one like the Arabic one on the other hand seems to consist of images.  Only the bullets seem to be actual text.

mmm......they seem to be in breach of their own policies....
<http://elections.nsw.gov.au/accessibility_statement>

> 
> On 2011/Mar/07, at 9:48 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> 
>> The ALT Tags on the foreign language images are in english!
>> The webpage/menus/links are only in english.
>>
>> I haven't ascertained - whether the PDFs are indexed in
>> Google and therefore discoverable in other languages.
>> Perhaps someone who can speak one of these other languages
>> can check....
>>
>> I tried to cut the text out of the (Arabic) PDF to paste
>> into google translate - but alas could not!
>>
>> Seems fail fail fail on all levels.
>>
>> Marghanita
>>
>> Webb, KerryA wrote:
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> Sent: Monday, 7 March 2011 9:27 AM
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>>>> Subject: [LINK] NSW Election Multilingual information is not accessible
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>>>> Multilingual information at this page appears not to be
>>>> accessible!
>>>> <http://votensw.info/enrolment>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you clarify that?  Are you saying that the site doesn't comply with WCAG 2.0 because the information is only available in PDF?
>>>
>>> Kerry
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