--- "Larry G. Hull" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:22:12 -0400
> To: [log in to unmask]
> From: "Larry G. Hull" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Fwd: Request for Assistance
> Reply-to: "Larry G. Hull"
> <[log in to unmask]>
>
> The National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.)
> Internet team is
> looking for people with disabilities who are
> experienced users of the
> Internet and assistive technology to participate in
> their BLUE RIBBON
> PANEL ON WEB ACCESSIBILITY.
>
> If interested, please contact N.O.D.'s Web Manager
> at [log in to unmask]
>
> Larry
>
> >From: Eric Abalahin <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: "[log in to unmask]"
> <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: N.O.D. Blue Ribbon Panel on Web
> Accessibility
> >Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:24:41 -0400
> >
> >Larry,
> >
> >Thanks again for allowing Bethany Hoffman and I to
> attend
> >your Section 508 web accessibility seminar at the
> end of
> >February.  We have been able to incorporate some of
> your
> >tips into the development of our enhanced web site,
> which
> >is scheduled for launch this summer.
> >
> >As part of this development process, N.O.D. is
> assembling a
> >blue ribbon panel of experienced computer users
> with disab-
> >ilities to test the accessibility of the site.  The
> testing,
> >which we expect to take place some time during the
> month of
> >June, would allow for specific feedback on
> individual site
> >functions (e.g. site search, navigation, entering a
> calendar
> >event, registering for the newsletter, etc.) as
> well as gen-
> >eral feedback on the usability of the site.
> >
> >We see this as a new dimension in accessibility &
> usability
> >testing, above and beyond the W3C standards (which
> we will
> >certainly comply with, as a baseline).
> >
> >For more info on the panel, see
> http://www.nod.org/hot6.html.
> >
> >Eric Abalahin
> >Web Manager
> >National Organization on Disability
> >www.nod.org
>


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