- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:24:55 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 23:53 21/04/2005, david poehlman wrote: >BBC NEWS >Project to open internet to blind >A three-year project to improve blind access to the internet has started at >Queen's >University in Belfast. >Researchers at the university are working to devise ways to guide the blind >and visually >impaired through the web, as part of the Enabled initiative. The project's website is at http://www.enabledweb.org/. >The EU has provided 3.8m euro funding for the project which 13 other bodies >across >Europe are taking part in. It's a European project but they prefer a conformance logo for Section 508 to WCAG conformance... >(...) >Queen's University is the project leader and is joined in the project by 13 >other >universities and organisations across Europe, including BT and Siemens. Nice to find out who's co-ordinating the project, because that is not clear from their website. Regards, Christophe Strobbe >Story from BBC NEWS: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4457793.stm >Published: 2005/04/19 05:48:39 GMT >© BBC MMV -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/
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