- From: Chuck Hitchcock <chitchcock@cast.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:42:27 -0400
- To: "Philip Ramsey" <jamaican@colis.com>, "Brockbank, Leslie" <LBrockbank@uta.cog.ut.us>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Philip, I may not be fair to say that Bobby was sleeping on the job. Phil Jenkins covered most of the issues in his response to the original email. I do want to mention three things: 1. Bobby is not perfect. 2. CAST requires that the page author conduct a number of manual checks. They do not always comply and we do notify sites when we are alerted of a problem. 3. We note that the growing Bobby Approved database (currently at 921) available at http://dev.cast.org/bobby/approved_database.cfm is not monitored and we hope that those who use it will notify Webmasters or developers who enter sites that have not passed both the electronic and manual checks for WAI priority one conformance. Many thousands of sites are tested with Bobby. Some use the icon but many do not. Of the thousands that do, CAST does not have the resources to police compliance so we depend on you to help identify and perhaps even notify those who use the icon improperly. By the way, we do have someone who scans the database sites for material that we feel may not be appropriate for all viewing audiences and have removed quite a few from the list. Finally, we do welcome your comments and strive to continuously improve Bobby. Chuck __________________________________ Chuck Hitchcock Chief Education Technology Officer, and Director, National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum, CAST, Inc., 39 Cross Street, Peabody, MA 01960 Email chitchcock@cast.org Voice +1 978-531-8555 x233 TTY +1 978-531-3110 Fax +1 978-531-0192 <http://cast.org/> <http://cast.org/bobby/>
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