Re: Introducing Myself

Wellcome Cliff :-)

All the best,
Emmanuelle
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Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo
Fundación y Seminario SIDAR
URL: www.sidar.org
email: emmanuelle@sidar.org


2011/4/8 Cliff Tyllick <cliff.tyllick@yahoo.com>

> I've been contributing occasionally from a distance for some time, so some
> of you are familiar with me, but now that I am formally a member of the
> Education and Outreach Working Group, let me give you just a bit more
> information about myself.
>
> In my day job, I work as the Web usability assessment coordinator for the
> Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Under "other tasks as required,"
> I've spent most of my time the last two or three years teaching our
> employees how to create accessible content. And in my spare time, I have
> participated online in the effort to make Drupal a highly accessible content
> management system. (I am one of the three coordinators of the Drupal
> accessibility group.)
>
> I'm also a member of the Usability Professionals' Association — if you were
> at either the Portland, Oregon, or Munich, Germany, conference, perhaps we
> met! From that standpoint, I have focused on how to make authoring tools
> more usable with respect to the task of creating accessible documents.
>
> Of course, Drupal is one of the authoring tools I've worked on, but I hope
> you're also at least aware of the Accessibility tab for Microsoft Word 2007
> and, for those who, like many governmental agencies, are still using Word
> 2003, the Accessibility toolbar. Those are my babies.
>
> (These are for the Windows versions; I've found it a challenge to create
> the same for the Mac versions.)
>
> I look forward to working with you to make it easier for everyone to
> understand what accessibility is and the steps they can take to achieve it.
>
> Best regards,
> Cliff Tyllick
> @clifftyll
>



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Emmanuelle Gutiérrez y Restrepo
Fundación y Seminario SIDAR
URL: www.sidar.org
email: emmanuelle@sidar.org