Greetings,

Last weekend a chron job failed and as it was a 3 day weekend here it has
had to wait until this morning to be repaired.  Apologies. It will be up
again shortly.

As for the other questions.

1)
All the pages originate from the University. It is not the full collection
because many of the on-line course work materials use flash and other multi
media tools. We are also using it on a single server currently. This is a
single domain of a SUN E10,000 using Netscape enterprise server.

2)
For the next couple of weeks it is nightly. When the 'converter' is
launched it will be a part of the publish routine which moves the pages
from the staging environment to the production environment.

Depending on CPU load we expect that each page published will appear in the
text converter within 10 minutes. This is an estimate on a complete
republish of a large sub site. Single page alterations will be immediate.

3) We have templates, navigation strategies and naming conventions for all
content published in the gu domain. The converter has been written to
utilise these rules. We also have a set of Disability Access
Recommendations which cover standards for the use of alt tags and common
language descriptions.

These rules for meta data are enforced by pre-publication automated
checking. The other rules are part of the content custodianship and the
responsibility of line management to oversee. The IntRnet services team
fulfills a reporting and content managment role.




>
>>Date:         Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:19:18 -0500
>>Reply-To: "Library Access -- http://www.rit.edu/~easi"
>>              <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sender: "Library Access -- http://www.rit.edu/~easi"
>>              <[log in to unmask]>
>>From: Kelly Pierce <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject:      Re: New text site for Visually Impaired
>>X-To:         John Nissen <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>When I visited the site listed in the post with Lynx version 2.8, I
>>encountered a blank screen.  Did this happen to anyone else?
>>
>>kelly
>>
>>
>>On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, John Nissen wrote:
>>
>>> Do the 25,000 plus pages all originate from the university?
>>> How automatic is the conversion process?
>>> Do the 100 plus people have rules in order to make conversion possible?
>>>
>>> Cheers from Chiswick,
>>>
>>> John
>>> --
>>> In message  <[log in to unmask]>
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>>>
>>> >>Griffith University has developed a text only site to allow those who use
>>> >>screen to voice readers to access materials that appear on the web
>through
>>> >>frames and complex graphic interfaces.
>>>
>>> >>There are more than 25,000 pages on our site and more than 100 people
>>> >>create and publish pages. Our conversion process relies on a naming
>>> >>convention and the use of a specified navigation logic.
>>>
>>> >>The text site can be visited at http://www.gu.edu.au/text/home.html
>>> --
>>> Access the word, access the world       Tel/fax +44 181 742 3170/8715
>>> John Nissen                             Email to [log in to unmask]
>>> Cloudworld Ltd., Chiswick, London, UK   http://www.tommy.demon.co.uk
>>>
>>

Regards
Spider Redgold



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Manager, Enterprise Information & IntRnet Services
Information Technology Services
Griffith University
Brisbane Australia 4111
Phone: 61 7 3875 3732
Fax:   61 7 3875 5314
http://www.gu.edu.au/
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