- From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:39:46 +0200
- To: "WCAG List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi Wendy and friends, as requested i start to present myself. I'm Roberto Scano - 27 years old - and i'm an asp developer. Also i'm the EMEA (Europe-Middle/East-Africa) Coordinator of IWA/HWG (www.iwanet.org - www.hwg.org). I've started to follow accessibility since August 2001 because our association has merged with HWG that as you know was specialized in promotion of web standards and raccomandations (Kynn Barlett is our "teacher" :-D). Now IWA/HWG is working around the world for develop the conoscence for members and no-members to use the raccomandation of W3C as an official guide in developing products and contents for the www. This also is due to the eEurope raccomandation of EU that raccomend for the public administration the respect of level 1 of WCAG for all the public administration web sites. We have supported in Italy a conference in May 2002 (www.webxtutti.it) and we will partecipate with also W3C Europe to the 2nd Webmaster Forum in Dubai ( http://www.iwa-italy.org/comunicati/me_webmaster.pdf) . As EMEA, i must coordinate the activity of these chapters and grant support with the official guidelines of IWA International: for eg., for all the new chapter agreement we request that the creation of the country web site must respect the W3C guidelines for XHTML and the WCAG at least for level A. We are also following an accessibility project that will start in september in italian language and then with an international version made by IWA/HWG: www.webaccessibile.org that is a project to promote the accessibility guidelines and the knowledge and example about its application to the web-workers that aren't able to study and apply himself to the WCAG of W3C. Personally and with Marco we have developed a local government website: www.regione.veneto.it that is fully managed by the local government and organized with a CMS that i've created using as support ewebeditpro of Ektron (www.ektron.com) with customization that "force" the respect of the WCAG 1.0 and the validation of the code for XHTML 1.0. This CMS will also "power" webaccessibile.org and other web sites that will be opened and upgraded for accessibility. That's all folks! :-) P.S. Ms. Michela Cappelli is not yet shown in http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/participants.html :-)
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