It's hard to know where to start in our analysis of this ad for the website accessibletoronto.com, found above Sparkling Bubbles on Dundas Street East by local Web accessibility expert/TTC enthusiast Joe Clark. Needless to say, placing your wheelchair-emblazoned logo above a restaurant without a wheelchair ramp is sending mixed signals at best. The fact that the second floor of the building is boarded up—inaccessible to the world, you might call it—doesn't help. To top it off, the website in question is not actually accessible, at least to visually impaired visitors using screen-reading software that requires alt text, an HTML attribute that helps such programs properly interpret images.
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Newsstand: November 23, 2009