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D-Link DI-604 4-Port Cable DSL Router The following report compares gadgets using the SERCount Rating (base on the result count from the search engine). |
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POPULAR HAT - 2006-02-13 11:30:00 | © Copyright 2004 - www.hat.net () | sitemap | top |
Now to the caveat. The router is configured totally via a web interface. This is very good since all modern operating systems can configure the browser--no special software is required. Thus a pure Unix or Linux network can use this router. But there is a major flaw in the web-based interface. I am blind. I use a special program, called a screen reader, that interfaces with Windows and Internet Explorer 6 to verbalize the screen. The program cannot interpret graphics on the Web. It relies on the W3C standard of labeling images with alternative text, which the screen program verbalizes in place of the graphic. This is particularly important for graphics which are hyperlinks, as one can imagine. The problem is, all the hyperlinks in the administration interface of this router are images, and these images are not labeled properly with any alt= attribute. This is so easy and requires adding a short bit of code to the HTML, yet D-Link overlooked this now widespread, famous, and basic accessibility rule. I have wrote to D-Link about this, and they can correct this in a firmware upgrade, but they have not responded to this at all. The initial oversight knocks my rating down a star, and D-Link's lack of a response (after a week) knocks my rating down another star, so my rating is subject to change.