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Re: Bobby and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

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From: Prof Norm Coombs
Date: Feb 22, 2002 8:43AM

Boby gives you the ability to test for either WAI or 508 from the test page
www.cast.org/bobbyAt 07:01 AM 2/22/02 -0800, you wrote:
>What is the site for 508 approval?
>--- Prof Norm Coombs < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>wrote:
>> We also switched to 508
>> At 09:26 AM 2/18/02 -0800, you wrote:
>> >They have changed Bobby ( http://www.cast.org/bobby
>> )so it doesn't give you
>> >an "Approved icon" any more. I have run some
>> accessible web pages through
>> >Bobby and Bobby reports "Need's repaired" when you
>> choose Web Content
>> >Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. I have not found a
>> page ( I have even run
>> >some of CAST's Bobby Site pages) that it gives an
>> approved icon any more
>> >when you use Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
>> 1.0. I have chosen 508
>> >guidelines and I have got the Approved Icon but
>> many people might not know
>> >they need to change to this.
>> >What is everyone's opinion of the new Bobby? Does
>> your page get the
>> >approved icon when you run Web Content
>> Accessibility Guidelines 1.0?
>> >
>> >Kevin Price
>> >Coordinator-Assistive Computing Resource Center
>> (ACRC)
>> >Academic Computing and Media
>> >California State University, San Bernardino
>> >5500 University Parkway / PL-002
>> >San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397
>> >909-880-5079 FAX 909-880-7075
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> Norman Coombs, Ph.D.
>> Cell (949) 922-5992
>> Professor Emeritus, Rochester Institute of
>> Technology
>> http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh
>> CEO, EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
>> http://www.rit.edu/~easi
>>
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