- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:11:56 -0500
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Mike Paciello wrote: > > Dear Friends and Colleagues: > > I am writing to you to let you know that I am writing a book on Web > Accessibility for IDG Books World Wide. IDG Books is one of the leading > international publishers of computer and technical books in world. They are > most famous for their "For Dummies" series of books. This book, is not of > that series. It is positioned in their professional series of computer > reference publications. However, it will still enjoy wide distrbution on an > international basis. > > As part of the writing effort (of which I am half-way through), I am > implementing a section of the book dedicated solely to those companies and > organizations who have their own web sites and specifically support people > with disabilities. If you would like to have your site featured in the > book, please respond to me by e-mail with the following information: > > 1. Name of Organization/Company > 2. Web Site URL (address) > 3. Description of Site and/or Mission Statement of Organization (1-2 > paragraphs at most) > 4. If possible, please attach a bitmap image (.BMP) of your home page. This > is not mandatory. I'll have to make decisions about how much of the page we > can display in the book. Regardless, your entry will contain a snap shot of > the web site in the book. > 5. A statement granting me and the publisher the right to use this data and > image. > > If you are not part of a company or organization, but your web site > provides a specific service that supports people with disabilities, please > feel free to submit your entry as well. I will be very happy t > > International organizations and companys who maintain American English > versions of their web sites (even as a secondary option) are especially > encouraged to submit sites. This book will be published throughout the > world and in several different languages. > > It goes without saying that the book will be published in braille and > electronic text for the blind. > > Please feel free to post this message to other disability-related e-mail > listservs > > Regarding the book, for the most part it is a technical reference guide > focusing exclusively on web accessibility. Design, programming concepts, > multimedia, tools, utilities, emerging technology etc..etc... More > importantly, it is a book that I hope will increase awareness about > accessibility and, as a result, stimulates development of accessible > interfaces of the future. > > I am quite excited about this book. IDG is putting in an incredible effort > to publicize it. If all goes well, we are timing the release of the book > with the WWW8 conference in Toronto. However, I hope to have exerpts > prepared for the 1999 CSUN Conference too. > > Regards and thanks, > > Mike Paciello > > Mike Paciello Email: <paciello@ma.ultranet.com> > WebABLE! Solutions Tel: (603) 598-9544 > 131 D.W. Highway #618 Fax: (603) 598-2839 > Nashua, NH 03060 WWW: <http:://www.webable.com> > > Please make a donation to the Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation. > (http://www.yuri.org) > > "A creativity initiative is any proposal for action-inciting change that earns > at least one serious conversation with someone other than the originator’s > spouse, friend, or office mate…." – John Kao, Jamming -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s Touching The Internet ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net email: poehlman@clark.net voice 301-949-7599 Dynamic Solutions Inc. Best of Service for your small business network needs http://www.dnsolutions.com
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