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From: Karlen Communications
Date: May 29, 2014 7:36AM

I agree. And it is an area I'm working in. How to get the information about the standards to the legislators so that there isn't a disconnect between what we can do and what the lowest expectations of what we can do are. In many ways I feel we've been floundering for the past five or more years with no real progress in moving universal design and accessibility forward. We are still answering the same questions we were answering ten years ago...the same basic questions.

In some respect we are still so busy putting out these types of fires that we haven't been able to do more advocacy to the content application developers, digital environment developers, digital content developers and adaptive technology developers.

I also think the feeling of floundering has been the time it is taking for legislative refreshes in both Canada and the US, the HTML 5 issues of implementation and emerging file format standards like PDF/UA that are still not marketed or advocated for.

It is a partnership however it appears to be falling apart.

Cheers, Karen