- From: Accessys@smart.net <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:58:38 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Ginger Claassen <ginger.claassen@gmx.de>
- cc: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
the question I would ask (and I have no knowledge of silverlight) is that if an inaccessible tool is required to work on the design of a website, how can the finished product, the website, be accessible??? And of course if it is a school website it needs to be accessible for not only students but parents who may be disabled and need the access. Bob On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Ginger Claassen wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a question regarding silverlight - I know it might be a bit off > topic in this list but maybe someone can send me a pm with some helpful > information. We have a student here who wants to work on the redesign of > our website an he is supposed to use MS Silverlight for some parts of it > and we want to make it, of course, accessible for people with visual > impairments especially blind ones thus I myself can use the website. > Does anyone know a good source, online, book or whatever where to find > insturctions or ideas how to make Silverlight accessible? > So far we did not succeed in finding any useful stuff. > > I appriciate every help as little as it might be! > > Thanks in advance for your support! > > Kind regards > > Ginger > > > Christophe Strobbe wrote: > > > > At 20:50 1/04/2009, Matt Morgan-May wrote: > >> On 4/1/09 11:25 AM, "Christophe Strobbe" > >> <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be> wrote: > >> > For example, a Maltese user who does not know any foreign languages > >> can only > >> > access content in Maltese and use software that is localised for > >> Maltese. > >> > If there is no accessible user agent (including plugins) that is > >> > supported by AT that is available in Maltese (assuming that there are > >> > user agents available in Maltese), than Maltese policy makers would > >> better > >> > not include that technology in their list of accessibility-supported > >> > technologies (if they were making one). > >> > >> I think Malta has one bigger obstacle... > >> > >> > (...) > >> > >> Unless I'm mistaken, there is no screen reader that supports Maltese. I > >> think the same is true for Irish, though a cursory look shows there's > >> been > >> work on a Gaelic TTS engine. Still, until that work is done, any > >> movement in > >> accessible technology (that is, not just web accessibility) in those > >> languages is blocked by the absence of suitable screen reader > >> technology. > > > > Absence of essential types of AT is a big obstacle. > > With regard to WCAG 2.0 conformance, one can only fall back on a > > "Statement of Partial Conformance - Language": > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#conformance-partial-lang>. > > (This type of statement was added during the Candidate Recommendation > > phase, > > during which the WCAG WG received implementations in various languages > > and > > scripts, including Japanese and Chinese.) > > > > Best regards, > > > > Christophe > > > > > >> - > >> m > > > > -- > Ginger B. Claassen > Benhauserstr. 11b > 33100 Paderborn > Germany > > Tel.: +49 (0) 5251 / 147 9282 > Mobil: +49 (0) 179 / 111 4492 > Fax.: +49 (0) 5251 / 60 6065 > Skype: mcgingermobile > > - end ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ occasionally a true patriot must defend his country from its' government +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve Neither liberty nor safety", Benjamin Franklin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ASCII Ribbon Campaign. . . . . . . . . . . . accessBob .NO HTML/PDF/RTF/MIME in e-mail. . . . . . . accessys@smartnospam.net .NO MSWord docs in e-mail . . . .. . . . . . Access Systems, engineers .NO attachments in e-mail, .*LINUX powered*. access is a civil right *#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*# THIS message and any attachments are CONFIDENTIAL and may be privileged. They are intended ONLY for the individual or entity named
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