- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:58:12 -0400
- To: EOWG <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Last evening my wife and I attended two presentations sponsored by the Boston-IA -- I'm now a member. http:/boston-ia.org "Bringing Information Architecture and Accessibility Together" They had ample food before the meeting. The group celebrated their 1-year anniversary.with a cake, between speakers. 1. Mike Paciello gave a fine presentation on accessibility Mike is president of The Paciello Group, LLP http://www.paciellogroup.com/index_mx.html His power-point slides will be posted to the IA site. He mentioned that ISO is working on some accessibility issues, with target about two years hence. Mike encourages site assessment -- using three key words: clarify procesws/plan/standards compatibility usability. 2. Larry Goldberg Larry is Director, Media Access Group, WGBH. Developers of Web- and CD-ROM-based multimedia need an authoring tool for making their materials accessible to persons with disabilities. They provide MAGpie as free software to enable captioning. http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/ As of January 1, 2006 the FCC will require all TV content to be accessible. This may be a non-issue if all TV is delivered through the web. He demoed many tools that permit viewing accessible media, Apple is working to sonify menus.-- goal to provide a spoken description of an encountered menu. particularly captioning. They provide about $12M support to business and government per year. http://ncam.wgbh.org Newsworthy: IMS releases draft specification to improve Accessibility of Online Learning http://ncam.wgbh.org/news/pr_20030430.html He noted the MIT site allows a user to establish personal preference profiles, that apply across platforms. Regards/Harvey Bingham
Received on Thursday, 24 June 2004 02:58:24 UTC