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From: Hale, Mark P Jr
Date: Dec 13, 2010 1:57PM

You may find after looking at the data published by Jon that the Chronicle article title and column labels are more than a little misleading: for example, "Web Design" in the Chronicle was "Table Layout" in the original data, which you can see at http://webaccessibility.cita.illinois.edu/data/

Mark

Mark Hale
R&D Project Leader / IT Accessibility Coordinator
CIO Office, The University of Iowa
319-335-5825



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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Cliff Tyllick
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 12:27 PM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Chronicle of Higher Education article "Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online"

Jon, can you tell us more about the methods used to determine the
rankings in the chart?

The footnotes clue us in to what was measured, but was this done with
an automated tool? With scores of volunteers?

And what are common examples of failure on each measure? For example,
would a site pass or fail on "site name readable on all pages" if the
one identifier common to all pages is the school logo (with alt text) at
upper left? Or were you looking for the site name to be included in each
page's title tag?

Thanks!
Cliff

Cliff Tyllick
Usability assessment coordinator
Agency Communications Division
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
512-239-4516
<EMAIL REMOVED>


>>> On 12/13/2010 at 11:32 AM, in message
< <EMAIL REMOVED> >,
"Gunderson, Jon R" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
Chronicle of Higher Education article "Colleges Lock Out Blind Students
Online":

http://chronicle.com/article/Blind-Students-Demand-Access/125695/



And a sidebar about Cal State*s success:

http://chronicle.com/article/Cal-States-Strong-Push-for/125683/



Chart ranking the best and worst college web sites:

http://chronicle.com/article/BestWorst-College-Web/125642/




Jon Gunderson