----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles McCathieNevile" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "IG (E-mail)'" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:27 PM
Subject: #Accessibility IRC channel



Hi folks,

this is to let you know that Jonathan Chetwynd has launched an IRC
channel [1] for discussion of accessibility. It's on the server
irc.freenode.net and is called #accessibility

Thanks to Jim Ley it is logged, and there is a chumpbot [2] running. If
you don't know what a chumpbot is, it listens to the channel, and if
you put a URI on a line by itself it records it. You can add a title,
or other comments, and there is a summary page that shows the things
that it "chumped". This might be easier to read than the log - not so
much extraneous information. At the moment it is just XML - we are in
the process of putting an HTML version in place.

The idea of this channel is to provide an instantaneous place to
discuss accessibility - it should be an interesting complement to this
list, where you can see if you can get a quick answer to a question, or
talk about something that's been bugging you.

It's not endorsed by anyone - it's a personal initiative of Jonathan's
that hopefully will be helpful, useful and friendly.

cheers

Chaals

[1] irc://irc.freenode.net/accessibility
[2] http://usefulinc.com/chump/

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Charles McCathieNevile                          Fundación Sidar
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