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From a developer viewpoint, picking the low-hanging fruit (the
easy stuff to fix) might look like a good approach, but what if the
things that present the greatest barriers are also the things that are
hardest to fix. For example, an early version of ABC.com opened onto a
full screen graphic with no text at all, that was a server side map.
Completely inaccessible. Fixing the things on subsidiary pages wouldn't
help overall accessibility because a user could never get to those
pages, although the designer might be able to report that 90% of our
pages have been fixed.
Denis Anson, MS, OTR
Computer Access Specialist
College Misericordia
301 Lake St.
Dallas, PA 18612
email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 570-674-6413
> -----Original Message-----
> From: * EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alan Cantor
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 12:46 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: COMPLIANCE WITH WEB ACCESSIBILITY
>
> Last week at the Accessing Higher Ground conference in Boulder,
I
> picked up a flyer from WebAim (www.webaim.org) that describes a
> five-step web remediation process: "the fast track to
accessibilty."
> Here it is in outline:
>
> 1. Evaluate your current site.
> 2. Fix the easiest issues first.
> 3. Fix your templates.
> 4. Fix all HTML-related issues.
> 5. Fix all non-HTML issues.
>
> The flyer goes into more detail.
>
> Alan
>
>
> Alan Cantor
> Project Manager
> Strategic e-Government Implementation
> e-Government, OCCS
> 416-212-1152
> [log in to unmask]
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 11/20/02 03:26AM >>>
> Hi all,
>
> Our college's teaching and technology just had a meeting
> today with its major focus and agenda being web site
> accessibility. The major question came up for me to ask
> the experts from this listserv as follows:
>
> Given that each of our Maricopa community colleges have
> hundreds, if not thousands, of web pages (including
> courses on the web. This all comes after several
> years of development and .....recently the staff and
> faculty are now realizing the responsibility to have the
> web sites/pages be ADA/508 compliant.
>
> The question is this: Iin what order of the web
> sites/pages do we need to ensure are accessible. We
> know that we definitely need to have the home page be
> 508 compliant along with its links.
>
> Please comment and advise. Thank you in advance for
> taking the time to submit your replies to the above
> question.
>
> Jack Clevenger, Coordinator
> Disability Resources and Services
> Mesa Community College
> Mesa, Arizona
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