[LINK] NSW Election Multilingual information is not accessible

[Marghanita da Cruz]

...and in response to my email to the NSW electoral
commission - they have referred me to another dud page!
> Good morning Marghanita,
> 
> In response to your recent email, I advise you that if you seek multilingual information on the currect NSW election to check our website link:
> http://www.votensw.info/voting_assistance_in_your_language
> 
> It may be the link to the other website you are looking for that is not working.
> 
> Regards
XXXX
> Enquiries Officer
> NSW Electoral Commission

Marghanita
Ash Nallawalla wrote:
> Having perused WCAG 1.0 and 2.0 recently and proving a major US vendor to
> have a misleading WCAG 1.0 "A" compliance statement on their website, I know
> this is a pain in the bum for the people who build these sites. There aren't
> enough people in their vicinity who know the subject well enough without
> having to check a printed copy at hand.
> 
> However the website owner needs to comply and find someone who knows the
> basics of compliance, as mentioned in this thread. These were basic errors.
> 
> The Hindi text is a slab of graphics, so a big fail there. 
> 
> Worse, I'd challenge the average Indian to translate it back to the intended
> English. It is written using the purest form of Hindi that nobody speaks.
> Even the Govt of India election site uses borrowed Urdu words because
> Indians speak a lot of Urdu without realising it (Bollywood uses Urdu, not
> Hindi unless it is a religious movie). So it's not accessible to most
> sighted Indians either. 
> 
> I wouldn't mind knowing how many Indians on the electoral roll in Australia
> can't read English. 
> 
> Ash
> 
> 
>> From: Marghanita da Cruz
> 
>> 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-----
>>>> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-
>>>> bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Marghanita da Cruz
>>>> Sent: Monday, 7 March 2011 9:27 AM
>>>> To: Link list
>>>> Subject: [LINK] NSW Election Multilingual information is not
>>>> accessible
>>>>
>>>> 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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