- From: Maurizio Vittoria <vittoria@marciana.venezia.sbn.it>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:34:38 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi Wendy and friends, I present myself, as requested. I'm Maurizio Vittoria, since 1998 webmaster of the National Marciana Library, in Venice, Italy (http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/). I always have been sensitive to the problematic of accessibility and the usabilità of the Web, and therefore I am a supporter of the W3C and its standars. In truth I am a librarian who, dusting my studies of electronics and computer science, me slowly "transformed" in webmaster, and work also from "interface" between the librarians and the web. I am IWA-HWG member, where I am are "WebGuru Bibliography"; I often teach on the courses on searches and cataloguing on the Net, Internet and webwriting and standards, in which I consider the WCAG and accessibility like integrating part of the other web-standards. I have stated that, working in XHTML, the "Level double A " is caught up with extreme facility To; so I try to convince the colleagues and the students that to follow the WCAG he does not involve large efforts. Many italian colleagues and students assert that the texts of the W3C are difficult to understand (not only as language, but often as exposure), but I have seen that in the draft of WCAG 2,0 they have been the efforts to become simple. Working in a Public Administration, I believe I am a duty that the information arrive to all: from the Library, round to October 2002 and together to other organizations, will leave one National Campaign (in Italy) for accessibility in the libraries on the web. This in order to push to a law (like "Section 508") that forces all the Italian Public Administration not to forget the disability, to follow the standards and to align themselves also to the directives of the European Union. To this purpose *it would be much beautiful one* that this Group supported this campaign, when it leaves! What do you say about? PS: I have studied the French language, I'm sorry for this strange English! Maurizio ----- Maurizio Vittoria Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Tel. 041.5208788 - Fax 041.5238803 mailto:vittoria@marciana.venezia.sbn.it
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