This is the second campaign website I’m looking at to see how accessible it is. Barack Obama’s site, I’ll say, seems to be better than Senator Clinton’s. I think they’ve done a better job of providing information without relying on images. There’s some room for improvement, though, as a quick check shows a few alt tags missing. The site also uses 3 tables for layout; we should be past that in 2007.
There are links that open new windows and they are not identified as doing such. Please, can we stop doing this? At least without some notification that if I activate that link, I’m going to not be in the same window as I was before? Without that, I don’t have the same browsing history, I can’t simply “go back” to where I was before, it’s just not kosher. Blindfold yourself and navigate this page, activating links at random.
This is a cursory look at accessibility pitfalls on this page. There’s some more I’m not touching on. As far as the two sites I’ve looked at so far, the Obama campaign site is a leap above the Clinton site, simply because the Clinton site makes no attempt at providing textual alternative content for so much of the page’s content.
