- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:20:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@sonic.net>
- cc: <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, <poehlman1@home.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi, if you have questions or suggestions about how WAI funds are spent they are not very useful on this list. I suggest that you write a proposal to the Director of WAI, who makes the decisions, although if you happen to be represented as a W3C member (e.g. through the HTML writers' Guild) you could also ask your advisory committee representative to follow up the question. Just to put things in perspective, WAI has a full-time staff of 3, with additional part-time contribution at staff level from another 3 people. There are two positions open (one is a replacement position, one is a new position), and I don't think the budget is full of spare cash to spend. In Australia, you could ask for an accommodation to be made for a disability-related problem with using the Report, and if no satisfactory solution was forthcoming, follow it up with a complaint to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. I believe the same sort of approach is available in the US. cheers Charles On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Scott Luebking wrote: Hi, I might be wrong, but I heard that one of the reasons that the Jakob Nielsen report was in PDF was because it has some feature which can lock the file or limits its copying. If I minderstood, then that's a different set of issues. Why can't WAI funds be used to make accessible some key relevant documents which are inaccessible? Perhaps the question to ask is why was the research done by someone not working with WAI. Why wasn't WAI supporting such research before someone else started doing it? Scott > the alternative is simple. It would not have cost them much on the > scale of things if they didn't want to do it in house or could not do it > in house to turn it over to someone who could produce it in an widely > accessible form. I do not think it is the job of the wai to undertak > paying for all the inaccessible documents out there to be made > accessible. I'd have done it for him for comparitive peanuts if he'd > but asked. -- 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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