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From: ilana kingsley
Date: Nov 6, 2003 12:10PM

Hi Rachel,

I've been using MAGpie and will show a demo of it
tomorrow. They still the cost outweighs the benefits.
They are concerned with the cost of transcribing the
audio and/or video. Then they are concerned about the
amount of time it will take to do the captioning.

Thanks.

--- Rachel Tanenhaus
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Are they familiar with MAGpie, produced by NCAM?
> This can help them
> provide captioning and description for their A/V
> products, and they
> certainly can't complain about the cost. ;)
>
> http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/ for more
> information.
>
> -Rachel
>
> Rachel H. Tanenhaus, MPH
> Information Specialist
> New England ADA & Accessible IT Center
> 374 Congress Street, Suite 301
> Boston, MA 02210
> Phone: (617) 695-0085 (v/tty)
> or (800) 949-4232 (v/tty) (in New England)
> Fax: (617) 482-8099
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> URL: www.NewEnglandADA.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilana kingsley [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:46 PM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Academic Library Bucks Web Accessibility
>
> Greetings,
> I've recently started a new job as a Web librarian
> in
> a small-mid-size university. I've been trying to
> implement web-accessibility policies for the
> library,
> however, a few department heads feel that this is
> too
> costly. All I want to do is make sure that any
> content
> the library produces meets W3C Priority 1
> guidelines.
> This implementation is for any *new* content and is
> not intended for existing content. The problem is, a
> specific department produces a lot of audio/video
> and
> they are claiming that they do not have enough
> resources or money to make things accessible. They
> rationalize that producing some content accessible
> by
> some people is better than not producing any content
> at all-- it's better that we have something. Then
> they
> start saying how all of our electronic journal
> subscriptions don't meet accessibility guidelines
> (most full text journals are in pdf format) and they
> start telling me about all the other non-accessible
> things in the library.
>
> All I want to do is create a simple policy insuring
> that new content is accessible!! They don't seem to
> care that they are legally obligated to do this.
>
> Any suggestions on how to deal with this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> I. Newby
>
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