- From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@ACM.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 02:31:56 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
I retired from 10 years of text processing standards work with Interleaf (Most vertical SGML applications, DSSSL and SGML Standards committee for ANSI and ISO) In Jan 1996, the week after Yuri Rubinsky died. Since he had motivated me by special invitation a month before to attend an accessibility workshop at WWW4, I've been hooked. I've been learning the ropes of universal design, and whatever else I can absorb about accessibility. I contributed to ICADD. I was part of the XML development, and remain part of W3C XML-WG. I have followed the other members of that family of languages. I remain a volunteer for the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation. I've given a number of talks on accessibility. See them at http://www.tiac.net/users/bingham/accessbl/ Some are in HTML, others are inaccessible as they remain in Powerpoint '97. I don't have enough storage on tiac to expand them into what Powerpoint thinks HTML is! I've run several hundred sites through Bobby and Bobby 2.01. I've made numerous suggestions about Bobby 3 Beta. I found problems with almost all the SGML-Open member sites. A second pass through them showed that only a few had fixed their accessibility problems. Many had gotten worse. Likewise most of the supporting firms for Microsoft CDF push technology early XML application had accessibility problems with their sites. I expect to run Bobby 3 against key legislator's sites when I get time. I'll develop a concise summary as feedback. The Rules Committee members are key, as they establish policy for all members of House, and of Senate. I'm currently contracted to develop an initial XML DTD for the DAISY 3.0 next generation international talking book. I expect to contribute from my background on tables (CALS Table Model, SGML Open Exchange Table Model, HTML 4.0) to WAI efforts. I try to contribute to WAI-AU, WAI-EO, WAI-UA, and now WAI-ER. Regards/Harvey Bingham
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