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Re: Section 508 Refresh & Public participation

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From: smithj7@peoplepc.com
Date: Feb 5, 2007 7:06AM

Thanks so much for sharing about this. At the AIT Conference I got to meet
Shawn Henry who gave a wonderful overview of the possiblity of "harmonizing"
508 with w3 standards. I will definately read more on what is happening and
make some comments. 508 definately leaves our low vision folks behind and
ignores things I didn't think about "user agent standards", "authoring tools
standards".

By the way I also learned from Jon Gunderson and Jared Smith. I left
realizing how insular our world is in Florida State government.
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From: "Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:57 AM
Subject: [WebAIM] Section 508 Refresh & Public participation


> List members,
>
> Have an opinion on how legal issues and technical standards impact your
> work? Does accessibility impact your development? Does it affect your
> customers? You might be interested in providing recommendations for
> updates or feedback to the refresh of the U. S. Section 508
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508) Accessibility Standards.
>
> This effort is being coordinated on an international scale. This is an
> open process, please consider participating! More information is
> available via http://teitac.org.
>
> Please share this message as appropriate. I think this message is
> appropriate given this forum, but please excuse me for this one-time
> posting if unwelcome. I only thought there might be people interested
> but not aware of this effort.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Norman B. Robinson
>