- From: Section 508.US <tagi11@cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:27:23 -0500
- To: "Julia Collins" <julia@we3.co.uk>, "Stephen Morgan at Idamus" <sgsmorgan@idamus.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet and some members of the Internet Society Disability and Special Needs Chapter www.icdri.org and http://www.isocdisab.org/ have persons who have courses on Internet Law, Accessibility, Usability and other topics. Contact: Michael Burks mailto:mburks952@att.net or myself. Classes and Courses range from 2 hours to 2 days or more depending on what your needs are. Rates are reasonable compared to customary charges for this type of training. M ############################################## Michael Van Randen Web Accessibility and Usability Consultant 1236 Greystone Lane Pensacola Florida, 32514 850-206-4715 tagi11@cox.net "Counting users on the Internet is like counting the number of people using wheelchairs who are inside an inaccessible building. It was once thought that since no wheelchair users were in the building, ramps were not needed. " UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY Copyright 1999-2003 Cynthia D. Waddell JD Executive Director of ICDRI http://www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/the_digital_divide.htm Access not exclusion ############################################# ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Collins" <julia@we3.co.uk> To: "Stephen Morgan at Idamus" <sgsmorgan@idamus.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:02 AM Subject: Re: Decorators with keyboards On 18/7/03 9:17 am, "Stephen Morgan at Idamus" <sgsmorgan@idamus.com> wrote: > We work with a lot of design agencies and our brief quite often is to take > the designs and write the coding and programming that will make them work. > You would not believe the crap that comes out of some design agencies. This > business has too many people who do not understand the difference between > design for print and design for the web. > It's about education. We are learning all the time, and we have to be positive and pro-active. There has always been a tekkies/luvvies divide, but really really it's better if we acknowledge each others' skills and educate and inform one another, seeing the final product as a joint enterprise. Does anyone know of anyone who runs seminars on accessibility/usability for design agencies? In view of the forthcoming lawsuits, etc, this might be a good business proposition (as well as endless good karma)? btw, as a past print designer (and yes, once, but briefly, a pixel perfect dreamweaver jockey and now, a burgeoning css/user testing queen - there's evolution for you) the notion of accessibiity for print is almost as big a question as that for the web. The battle between "cool" (8pt gill with 16pt leading??) and "accessible" (you have to use at least 14pt serifed face to be legible??) is legendary. ( Neither of course is right, we are talking dialectics and suitability for purpose here). The great joy of the web is that you can look good AND be accessible to everyone. And since design is all about problem solving, what an exciting thing to be doing. Julia (back at work again) ----- we3 ----- design print web -----
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