- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:23:07 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- cc: "* EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information" <EASI@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>, wai-ig list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
My first question is whether they want to make the site accessible, or the tool that the site describes accessible? If it is the site itself, then I think it has fairly common features and wherever one normally begins is probably a good start. If it is the application, then I would suggest: 1) Contact the Authoring Tool Accessibilty Guidelines working group as the group in W3C responsible for this area. 2) This is essentially a data-manipulation tool like a spreadsheet (from my first glance) and thereare lots of ways of making the information available - this tool is particularly good at doing it visually but presumably the information itself is stored in a way that means it could be presented as tables of data, or transformed into a basic narrative form, or ... Yes, in the olden days there were many applications like this that worked in text-based modes... cheers Charles On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, David Poehlman wrote: for a broader audience: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alice Anderson" <alice.anderson@DOIT.WISC.EDU> To: <EASI@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 4:08 PM Subject: how can faculty be advised on this project? Hello group, Today a faculty asked me to look at the site: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~devise/devise/javascreen/applications.html and give feedback on how to make accessible. I'm not technologically savvy, don't know javascript, and wonder if anyone has seen text equivalents for this type of applet application/interactive visualization? When I have a faculty interested in doing the "right thing" I want to help, but in this case don't know where to begin. All comments on or off-line will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, -- Alice Anderson, Division of Information Technology (DoIT) Learning Technology & Distance Education (LTDE) Learning Technology Initiatives Coordinator, http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/menus/events.htm Technology Access Program Coordinator, http://www.wisc.edu/learntech/tech_access/index.htm University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1307 University Avenue Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone 608-262-2129, Fax 608-262-0123 -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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