Re: NIDRR and Accessibility

It is probably even more depressing, since bobby only checks for about 25% 
of the potential accessibility problems.

Jon


At 05:27 PM 4/17/2001 -0500, Jim Allan wrote:
>FYI
>
>Jim Allan, Webmaster & Statewide Technical Support Specialist
>Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
>1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cedmonds@governor.state.tx.us
>[mailto:cedmonds@governor.state.tx.us]
>Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 4:23 PM
>To: techlunch@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [techlunch] FYI - Charts
>
>
>I was looking at a study that a disability research organization did on the
>website
>access of groups that got federal research grant money through NIDRR
>(National
>Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, an arm of the
>Department of
>
>Education):
>
>http://www.ncddr.org/du/success/
>
>The findings were actually pretty depressing, but I think they did a pretty
>good
>  job of
>showcasing the use of the "d" tag to show how charts can be made accessible:
>
>http://www.ncddr.org/du/success/2webaccess.html
>

Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
MC-574
College of Applied Life Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
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Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2001 11:44:26 UTC