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From: Ro
Date: Nov 9, 2010 7:33AM

Ah thank you Patrick! Yeah she's really excited about it. We had
wondered if the class would address accessibility at all and we both
doubted it. So when the whole lecture was about it yesterday and she
found out it would be 20% of her grade, she was over the moon and
texted me from class haha. She'll be the only one with a tester. ;
Very exciting that they think it's important! And the focus was about
not losing that percentage of business, which I thought was awesome.
Ok enough rambling.

~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden

In the Center of the Roof

http://raynaadi.blogspot.com/

On Nov 8, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Patrick Burke wrote:

> Hi Randi,
>
> The house anser would be:
>
> WAVE Toolbar (Firefox add-on):
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6720
> Or online version:
> http://wave.webaim.org/
>
> Sounds like a great class!
> Patrick
>
> At 02:30 PM 11/8/2010, Ro wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My friend is taking an M.I.S. class at the University of Arizona, and
>> they are building a website. They just found out today that 20% of
>> their grade will be accessibility. Of course my friend is excited
>> because she'll have me as a tester haha. But I'm curious about
>> whatever program or site you all use that tests for accessiblity?
>> I've
>> seen it mentioned here, but can't remember what it is.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Oh yeah, I'm really excited at the emphasis they put on
>> accessibility.
>> She said the professor even talked about the percentage of the
>> population they'd be alienating if their site wasn't accessible. I'll
>> be sending her to WebAIM for pointers. ;)
>>
>> ~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
>>
>> One Day at a Time
>
>