Thread Subject: Re: General Issues: AT responsibility

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From: Andi Snow-Weaver
Date: Wed, Jan 10 2007 10:35 AM

To Barbara's point about authors not providing the row and column header
information using off the shelf software ....

That content does not conform to Section 508. Authors cannot assume that
their content will conform to 508 just because they are using a product
that conforms. It is true that tools could do more than they do but they
can't do the entire job. Some of the responsibility will always fall to the
author. For example, a common technique in e-mail is for people to insert
comments using color. The tool can't fix that for them. People have to
learn how to use additional techniques to flag the insertions for people
who can't see the colors.

Andi

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