- From: Suzanne Nikolaisen <nikolaisen@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:03:36 -0700 (PDT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, The light bulb went on over my head the other night and I've been thinking about this ever since. I think that somebody should build a developer site for accessibility. As a developer I use free developer sites as learning tools. Sites to pick up tutorials, read articles, grab code, and find free resources. This allows me to quickly learn about a technology and start using it while I'm working (For example this is how I learned CSS). Some of these sites are: http://www.reallybig.com/ http://www.bignosebird.com/ http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/ http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/ I would think that building such a site about accessibility for developers could bridge the gap to developers and allow them easy access to learn how to build more accessible sites. Kind of a one stop place for all sorts of accessiblity information. (Not necessarily "bigconamehere.com", but something built as a resource for developers that could house info on various platforms and all types of accessibility, from screen readers, to palm pilots. All of it. I have all sorts of ideas about this and would do it but I don't have the time, money, or experience with accessibilty to do it. I really think this could be key in getting developers involved in developing accessible sites. The site could be linked to other "mainstream" dev sites which in turn would drive traffic to the site. (Kind of like the shampoo commercial from the 70's - someone will see the site, and they'll tell 2 friends, who'll tell 2 friends, and so on...) Now somebody's supposed to say, "Hey, good idea!" and run with it. Naive'ly, Suzanne Nikolaisen http://home.earthlink.net/~nikolaisen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/
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