- From: Javier Romañach <jromanac@dial.eunet.es>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 10:18:44 +0200
- To: "WAI IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hello all, Translations into spanish of many WAI guidelines and documents may be found in www.sidar.org, where the spanish working group on web accessibility has uploaded information for the last 5 years, and Emmanuelle Guitiérrez has devoted a huge effort. Nevertheless Jorge's document is more than welcome, and links could be stablishes between both sites. Regards, Javier Javier Romañach Madrid, Spain jromanac@dial.eunet.es ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael R. Burks <mburks952@worldnet.att.net> To: WAI IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 7:44 PM Subject: Jorge Plano's Accessible Web Guidelines in Spanish > All, > > Jorge Plano has written a terrific set of Guidelines for Accessible Web > Design. They are completely in Spanish and he has done a terrific job. > > I congratulate him, and applaud his effort as these a guidelines that do not > force the user to either translate them into Spanish, or learn English. In > my opinion this is a huge step forward in communicating these ideas around > the world. > > Jose kindly gave me permission to place them on the www.icdri.org site. I > have converted the files and made the corrections he asked me to. They are > located at: http://www.icdri.org/accesibilidad.htm They can also be found > at: http://www.educ.ar/educar/home/acces.jsp. > > If people know of other non English based guidelines I would like to place > those links as well. > > Those of us that use English as our primary language need to realize that > the real disability is not being able to access content. Hopefully these > guidelines are step in the direction of removing at least that forced > disability. > > Sincerely, > > Mike Burks > Chairman ISTF (ISOC) Working Group for Special Needs > www.istf.org > Webmaster and Public Information Officer > www.icdri.org > >
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