Hi Jeannie,
Check out these links and see if they have the info you're looking for:

Microsoft's page on accessibility
         http://www.microsoft.com/enable/dev/web/guidelines.htm

WebAIM's introduction to web accessibility
         http://www.webaim.org/info/intro

W3C's Web accessibility initiative
         http://www.w3.org/WAI/

HARMONY Guidelines for the Creation of Accessible WWW Documents
         http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/teo/docarch/projecten/harmony/guidelines/guidenofr.htm

Hope these help,-

Lynn
Lynn Cooke
Computer Lab Manager
Computer Services
Assumption College
Worcester, MA 01615
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At 11:53 AM 4/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I have been having some difficulty with a couple of our technical guys for
>some time around the issue of accessibility on our web site.  I am hoping
>some of you can help me with a problem that erupted in the last week related
>to this.  I need to track down a reference or two to back up my stance on an
>issue.
>
>The top page of our web site does has a link to a "text only version" of
>just our top level pages (that's the good news).  However, if someone choose
>to visit our site via the main "regular" page, not via the text only
>version, they are likely to encounter a problem, because the main body of
>the top page is graphical, which means the main navigation links are
>graphical.  I discovered last week while testing out the "wemedia" screen
>reader, that if someone opted to "view" our main page rather than going to
>the text only version, they would not even hear that those graphic-based
>navigation links are even there, which means they wouldn't get to our second
>level (main pages)!    I forward this observation to these guys, and one of
>them has basically launched a frontal attack around it, even though I
>offered a very simple solution - just add the text based navigation to the
>top page that we have on all of our inner pages.
>
>I know I have read in several places a description of the problem and
>recommendations about what to do if someone uses graphic-based navigation on
>web pages.  Do any of you know any references for that information?  Where
>it can be found on-line, so that I can simply refer my colleagues to it?
>That way they can't attack me.  If someone else says it and it's in writing,
>it takes me out of the equation.  Any assistance you can provide would be so
>very appreciated.  Tx.
>
>Jeannie
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