I'm glad to help. I hope you get other good responses.
Johnnie Apple Seed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin, Terry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: Accessible web sites.
David:
Thank you so much. This is the kind of information that I'm looking for.
Have a nice holiday.
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Terry A. Martin
VOILA Technology, Inc. -- President
54 Castle Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone: (585) 321-1451 *** NEW AREA CODE IS 585 ***
FAX: (585) 321-1451
URL: www.webstitute.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "david poehlman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Accessible web sites.
> So, In hopes of helpfullness, I'll provide some comments marked with *dp*
> for some of the questions in your message below:
>
> Johnnie Apple Seed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin, Terry" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:12 AM
> Subject: Accessible web sites.
>
>
> Greetings All:
>
> I would like to ask a few questions regarding accessible web sites. I am
> gathering some information. If you have the time, I'd greatly appreciate
> your responses. I know the answers to some of the questions. However, my
> knowledge of evaluating sites is several years old. I'd like to get an
idea
> of what is going on in the world now. Here are my questions.
>
> 1. If you had the choice to rebuild a site from scratch that was not
> accessible or retrofit a site that was not accessible, what would you do?
> Why? The size of the site does not matter. Small or large sites.
> *dp* Rebuild the site since there is probably going to be a lot that
cannot
> be gracefully retrofitted necessitating a lot of re-writing anyway.
>
> 2. What tools seem to be the best tools out there to evaluate a site for
> Section 508 and W3C standards? Tools that are affordable and that can
> evaluate an entire site.
> *dp* Affordable is subjective but I have found software from:
> http://www.hisoftware.com
> to be more than adequate for the task.
>
> 3. Has anyone used any of the enterprise editions of tools that can
> evaluate sites? How expensive are they? How well did they work?
>
> 4. If you have evaluated sites for companies or schools, did they allow
you
> to work on the site to fix the problem or did you just point out the
problem
> areas and then their development team fixed the problems?
> *dp* The team fixes the site or the contractor I team up with fixes the
site
> and then we do more evaluating.
>
> 5. If you can, I'd like to hear some of your success and horror stories.
> *dp* I'm not sure what you are asking for here, but My experiences over
the
> past several years range from quite positive to no feedback/change at all.
> I've gotten fairly good though at approaching the positive end result.
One
> success story envolves the design of a complex distance learning site with
a
> gifted developper who was able to solve all the issues we found but it
took
> a lot of work as the interface was quite complex. Failures usually
> manifested in non application of guidance.
>
>
> Thank you and have a nice holiday.
>
> ________________________________________________
> Terry A. Martin
> VOILA Technology, Inc. -- President
> 54 Castle Road
> Rochester, NY 14623
> Phone: (585) 321-1451 *** NEW AREA CODE IS 585 ***
> FAX: (585) 321-1451
> URL: www.webstitute.net
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> ________________________________________________
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