Where can I find a copy of the accessibility guidelines of the Department
of Education?  Are they posted somewhere on the net?  Thank you.
marjorie fulton
 >
>Dan you raise some compelling questions that I have been thinking about
>as well.  One of these is the expectations we place on our national
>leaders and national organizations.  we don't have to wait around for
>these guys to do something.  As blind people, many of us organized in
>local computer user groups, we can work cooperatively to pass legislation
>on the local level that would require state governments or local
>government to purchase software that was accessible to people with
>disabilities.  This is also an election year.  We can ask those running
>for city, county or state office if they would support implementing the
>accessibility guidelines that the U.S. Department of Education uses to
>evaluate software before it is purchased.  We have the skills and the
>potential ourselves and among our local circles to make a difference.
>
>We often underestimate our skills and believe those of others are
>superior.  An example of this is one of the questioners to bill Gates
>listed in the transcript and who works here in Chicago.  He has given
>many talks and has written many letters on the accessibility of windows
>while not actually using the interface, even though such access was
>possible to some degree.  I think sometimes we give more credit to our
>national leaders than we actually should.
>
>We all could go t our local newspaper and pitch a windows access story to
>them, for example.  We do not need to wait for the "big guys" in
>baltimore, Washington, or New york to do our activism, speak on our
>behalf, or be our political surrogates.
>
>kelly
>
>

--
x