- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:01:19 -0500
- To: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Yes, I've contacted her about the article and will be following up to find out if they would like to participate more. Len At 07:11 PM 11/12/00 -0500, Harvey Bingham wrote: >"Guidelines for Section 508 Expected by January" > http://gcn.com/vol19_no31/news/3178-1.html >Government Computer News (10/23/00) Vol. 19, No. 31, P. 8; Orr, Tony Lee >The federal Access Board is due to issue guidelines in January 2001 to >help agencies comply with the Section 508 directive. This directive >requires that disabled users be able to access IT. Board accessibility >specialist Doug Wakefield says that agencies will have six months after >the guidelines are issued before the directive goes into effect. However, >Wakefield says agencies do not have to wait until the final guidance is >issued to begin making sure that their Web sites and other systems are >accessible. Wakefield says that agencies must basically make sure that >their IT is available to those without vision and those without hearing. >However, the board wants to define how much accessibility is suitable. >Wakefield says, "Accessibility may be in the eye of the beholder," and >notes that the question may boil down to whether a disabled person can >access and use a program. > >Meanwhile, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is working >on establishing metrics that would remove any uncertainty. Sharon Lakowski, > laskowski@nist.gov >manager of the institute's visualization and usability group, says that >design and performance must be considered when studying accessibility. >Factors such as a Web page's design and a disabled users' ability to >complete tasks to his or her satisfaction could be a basis for judging >accessibility, Lakowski says. She suggests performance-based user testing >to work toward a common industry format. > >---- >Has anyone in WAI-ER had any contact with Sharon? > >Regards/Harvey Bingham > -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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