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because two heads are better than one perhaps?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Verhoeven" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: discussion:Fw: What is the problem with accessible
pop-upwindows?
Hi David,
Why do you forwarding this message on this list?
Regards Peter Verhoeven
David Poehlman wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ineke van der Maat" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:43 AM
> Subject: Fw: discussion:Fw: What is the problem with accessible pop-up
> windows?
>
> Hello David
>
> > The project is a government project and started in april 2001. 4 so
> > called ambassadors (one with a physical handicap, one with a visual
> > handicap, one with a mental handicap and one with a hearing
handicap)
> > tried to get 100 intention explanations from commercial companies
and
> > non profit organizations to make their web site accessible.
Accessible
> > here means including priority 1 checkpoints of the WCAG 1.0.
> > In april 2002 there were more than 100 of these intention
explanations
> > signed including banks, our parlement www.tweede-kamer.nl, some
online
> > shops, our national train company www.ns.nl etc.
>
> This weekend my political site was visited by a regional embassador
for
> Friesland of drempelsweg.nl who is nearly blind. I got a mail that
this
> site is accessible and he liked the added text why the site is built
as
> it is and how browsersettings can be changed when it is necessary.
The
> site meets AAA conformance.
>
> In your mail it seemed that there are only Dutch sites that are not
> still accessible but will be made accessible soon or later.. .
>
> Hallo Ineke v/d Maat
> Mijn complimenten over de website van GroenLinks Lelystad.
> Ook prima de verklarende tekst waarom de website zo is opgebouwd.
>
> succes verder met julie activiteiten.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet,
>
> van Nico Smits
> (ambassadeur voor drempels Weg.nl)
>
> Greetings
> Ineke van der Maat
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