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Ellen Perlow wrote:
> Dear Alan:
>
> Thanks very much. Yes, the PowerPoint presentation at
> http://www.ala.org/newsite does say that the ALA website will adhere "to
> Level II of W3C's Website Accessibility Initiative" .. so, as the
> PowerPoint
> reads, that the new website "will be accessible to ALL."
>
> -- you really have to look for it...
>
>
> And is the PowerPoint presentation accessible to ALL?
>
> Just for the sake of recruiting new members, ALA should prominently
> publicize the accessibility of the website in the the e-mail publicity
> that
> can be retrieved in digital-text only format.
>
> Ellen Perlow
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>
>
>
>> From: "Bern, Alan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: "Library Access -- http://www.rit.edu/~easi"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: New ALA Website (as of April 7)
>> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 14:25:00 -0800
>>
>> Expires After: 5/5/2003 01:00
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> As a place to start, take a look at http://www.ala.org/newsite
>> wherein the
>> PowerPoint explains that the ALA website will adhere "to Level II of
>> W3C's
>> Website Accessibility Initiative."
>>
>> Alan Bern, Berkeley Public Library
>>
>> >>> Schmetzke, Axel 03/31/03 01:41PM >>>
>> Dear Ellen (and everyone else),
>>
>> You are asking precisely the very question(s) that came to my mind when
>> I read the ALA announcement. I decided to wait until April 7, when I
>> have a chance to take a peek at it.
>> Once the new ALA site is up, let's discuss its accessibility on this
>> forum and, if needed, figure out what to do about it.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Axel
>> ******************
>> Axel Schmetzke
>> University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ellen Perlow [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:01 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: New ALA Website (as of April 7)
>>
>> Dear Everyone:
>>
>> The American Library Association [ALA - http://www.ala.org/] is
>> inaugurating
>> its new website next Monday, April 7, 2003.
>>
>> According to ALA's Accessibility Policy
>> (http://www.ala.org/ascla/access_policy.html), ALA's website needs to be
>> accessible.
>>
>> According to key principles of the library and information science
>> profession - diversity, equity of access, and intellectual freedom -
>> ALA's
>> website needs to be accessible.
>>
>> After all, ALA is the home of ASCLA, ASCLA LSSPS, and the ASCLA Century
>> Scholarship Diversity Initiative
>> (http://www.ala.org/ascla/centuryscholarship.html)
>>
>> I am confident that ALA has ensured the accessibility of its new site.
>> But
>> why is ALA not publicizing this fact in their press releases about the
>> new
>> website?
>>
>> During the past two weeks, ALA and its components have posted various
>> press
>> releases about the new website. The accessibility of the new website
>> has
>> not been mentioned.
>>
>> Is Accessibility such a given these days that it can be assumed?
>>
>> During the past two weeks, upon first reading the press releases, I have
>> inquired with a number of ALA offices - other than ASCLA - about the
>> accessibility of new site. Some ALA staff did not know to what I was
>> referring, thinking that I was referring to the availability of the new
>> site
>> (beginning April 7) rather than to its Accessibility (as in W3C
>> WAI/Section
>> 508, etc.).
>>
>> Achieving accessibility and equity of access is a 24-hour-a-day positive
>> educational endeavor. We who already are accessibility advocates and
>> self-identifying members of the class may understand the importance of
>> accessibility, but let us not assume that accessibility is as yet
>> perceived
>> as universally important as it truly is.
>>
>> So does anyone know, is the new ALA website accessible?
>>
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> Ellen Perlow
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
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