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[Omaha.pm] Backslash at EppleyAirfield.com breaks airlines in Firefox

I like the fact that Firefox sticks to the standards weeding out loopholes to make more solid code.  If you have ever used EppleyAirfield.com's Airline Flight Information in Firefox (even on Windows), you have been aggravated by the following problem for a few years.  Yes, i complained 2 or 3 years ago, but clearly nothing has been done to change just a single character.  HirschDesign.com put in a backslash "%5C" instead of a forward slash "%2F" for the logo images.  These images are required to find the airline in question.  What is more insulting is that there is no alternative text in place of a picture.  There is no ALT="AirlineName" html in case images are turned off - such as on a slow cell phone.

Right click on the image place holders at http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/fids_a.html and choose "Copy Image Location".  Paste that into your favorite text editor and you will see the  offending culprit %5C backslash '\' immediately before the name of the file.   Change the '%5C' into a forward slash or 'Solidus' and paste that into the address bar of Firefox. 
  Malformed HTML:    http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/images%5Cinline_southwest.gif
  Well formed HTML:  http://www.eppleyairfield.com/fids/images/inline_southwest.gif

Please urge the following changes:

1.) Fix the images to web standards by changing the backslash to a forward slash.  From the Internet Engineering Task Force RFC http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986, "A path consists of a sequence of path segments separated by a slash ("/") character. "

2.) Add alternate text to the images to make them compatible with screen readers.  Required for all government websites for years.  "HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0"  at  http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-text-equivalent

OMAHA AIRPORT AUTHORITY,
   4501 Abbott Drive, Suite 2300/     EPPLEY AIRFIELD, OMAHA, NE 68110-2689
   Business Office - (402) 661-8000
   Airport Information - (402) 661-8017
   Fax - (402) 661-8025

http://hirschdesign.com/
  14801 Pratt Court
  Omaha, NE 68116
  402-455-0383
  jenhirsch@hirschdesign.com

p.s. Our family depends upon airline flight arrival / departure information because get togethers can involve scores of people arriving at the airport.  I don't want to have to boot into Windows just to check on flight status.  Please urge them to fix the website.