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From: Denis Boudreau
Date: Apr 1, 2010 10:33AM

Hi Andrew,

On 2010-04-01, at 10:08 AM, Simius Puer wrote:

> Great idea - have you seen Guild of Accessible Web Designers
> GAWDS<http://www.gawds.org/>;?
> It's broadly along the same lines although not focusing as much on local
> legislation.

Yes, our focus is taking care of our backyard before we can even consider helping others take care of theirs. ;p

I've known about GAWDS for a few years now, but never really took the time to understand what it was exactly. Guess I will now!


> A minor suggestion - you may want to check the colour contrast of your
> Twitter profile (I only suffer minor colour-blindness but had problems with
> the right-column).

Oh, good point. Blame this on laziness. Will fix that up ASAP.

Thanks for taking the time to point it out.


> Best of luck with establishing your PMI bid and hope it really takes off as
> what your are proposing sounds like a great approach.

Thanks. That's very nice of you. I appreciate it. :)

--
Denis Boudreau
www.twitter.com/dboudreau





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