- From: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@sonic.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:42:21 -0800
- To: charles@w3.org, phoenixl@sonic.net
- Cc: kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com, poehlman1@home.com, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, Charles I was just thinking it might be helpful to see how WAI funds are spent. Do you know if the budget is on the web? Thanks, Scott > 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
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