- From: Waddell, Cynthia <cynthia.waddell@ci.sj.ca.us>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:10:38 -0700
- To: "'W3C interest group'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "'uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu'" <uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu>
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I thought the list would be interested to know that requests for me to speak on the City of San Jose's web accessibility effort have increased considerably. During the past 5 weeks I have spoken at 4 conferences: American Bar Association, Technology Summit for Women in Technology International, Federal Consortium Universal Access Seminar and the National Association of Secretaries of State. The latter conference was an opportunity for a significant impact from the top down at the state level nationally. The Administrative Codes and Registers Rules section was very interested in this issue since they are required by their bylaws to advise the Secretaries of State on effective management of rule promulgation and publication of administrative codes and registers. And today it has been confirmed that I will be speaking in September at the 1998 Interagency Resources Management Conference and Federal Chief Information Officers Conference. It is encouraging to see the Federal government placing a high priority on informing their decision makers about the need for accessible web design. Without your support of the Web Accessibility Initiative and the hard work now underway in all sectors of the technology industry, web accessibility implementation would be quite difficult for those of us involved in implementation and compliance with state and federal access laws. Thank you! Cynthia D. Waddell ADA Coordinator City of San Jose 801 North First Street, Room 460 San Jose, CA 95110-1704 (408)277-4034 (408)971-0134 TTY (408)277-3885 FAX
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