I invite you to visit http://www.gu.edu.au and enter the text site.

We have a complex site using templates that define framesets and a detailed
navigation strategy. When the content providers ( 200 independents content
providers) publish their sites from the stages environment to the test
environment have a program that deconstructs the framesets and applies
business rules to make the site accessible to screen to voice readers. This
si complemented by a policy of having a noframes/ no JAVAscript inclusion in
the template to allow for embedded material that cannot be deconstructed by
our text site conversion program.

This allows even the free ware screen to voice readers to receive single
frame text pages with  inserted  "local universe" focussed navigation to
encourage successful visits by vision impaired people.

This has the added advantage of allowing anyone using simple English to
other language translators to access our site as well as making it
accessible via PCLYNX.

It's not perfect yet, we have little funding and with staff turnover in the
content provider population and the rapidly changing faces of external web
site design companies who are engaged by different departments and schools
we are constantly retraining and completing incremental improvements.

When you visit, please drill into the site and notice how the navigation
across the top of the pages changes as you move through different areas. It
is structured so that every address simply needs /text/ added between the
domain www.gu.edu.au and the rest of the address so that the text site can
be entered directly from any point in the frames and graphics version, and
vice versa - from any where in the text site, remove text from the URL and
you enter the other version.

it's not perfect yet, but we are proud of our efforts, particularly as it
has had no special funding and is created and maintained with in the every
minuscule web budget.


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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-----Original Message-----
From: Library Access -- http://www.rit.edu/~easi
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Schmetzke, Axel
Sent: Friday, 29 October 1999 23:56
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Subject: Re: ADA complaints regarding library AT


Hi Dave,

I am equally interested in the information that you are seeking (especially
with regard to inaccessible web page design). If you hear about anything
(which is not posted to this forum), would you share it with me/us. Thanks.

For your article, you might be interested in data on web site accessibility
in libraries. In spring, I collected such data for the main library and
campus web pages of the University of Wisconsin campuses. They are readily
available at
http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/Accessible/UW-Campuses/contents.htm. You
might also be interested in the article listed on my resources page under
the legal information rubric:
http://library.uwsp.edu/aschmetz/Accessible/pub_resources.htm#Legal_Info.

Good luck!

Axel Schmetzke
Library
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Johnson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 6:51 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: ADA complaints regarding library AT


Dear List members:

For an article on the ADA and library AT, I would appreciate receiving
information on complaints about lack of ADA compliance by libraries with
regard to AT or computer/website access, and how these complaints were
resolved.

David Johnson
National Rehabilitation Information Center
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