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From: Jennison Mark Asuncion
Date: Jul 6, 2010 8:21AM

Hi, Bevi.

This informal poll was inspired by some conversations I was having
yesterday whose focus was on software and web accessibility testing. That
said, you've made me curious re take-up of testing for document
accessibility since it is rarely talked about. While no one is prevented
from answering this question from the perspective of testing for document
accessibility, I'm thinking I'll query the community on this subject
separately and specifically in a future poll.

Thanks for the idea.

Jennison

> Comment:
> Just websites and software applications?
> Why not Word documents, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint
> presentations,
> and other office documents, too?
> --Bevi
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> Subject: [WebAIM] How do you test for accessibility?
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> Hello,
>
> In an attempt to take a broad, unscientific temperature check and more
> importantly, to hopefully cause some conversation to happen around
> accessibility testing, I'm running a poll asking the question: how do you
> typically test the accessibility of a web site or software application for
> users with disabilities? Consider participating in the poll and/or view
> results to date by going to http://twtpoll.com/i2tgre
>
> I'm running the poll until the end of the month and will share results
> then.
>
>
> Jennison
>
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> Jennison Mark Asuncion
> Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network <www.adaptech.org> LinkedIn at
> <www.linkedin.com/in/jennison>
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