- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 03:42:27 -0500 (EST)
- To: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@sonic.net>
- cc: <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, <poehlman1@home.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Not so far as I know. cheers Charles On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Scott Luebking wrote: 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 -- 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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