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From: Sesock, Kevin A
Date: Oct 11, 2004 1:11PM










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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For those of you who are members of the W3C Web
Accessibility Interest Group list, you might have noticed a recent thread
regarding the Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office, offered by
iCITA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For those of you who
have not followed the thread, the short description is that this tool, which
was once freely downloadable, is now no longer offered free of charge. Instead,
a Demo version is available that provides limited functionality. Their version
1.0. the one we were all used to using, is now no longer downloadable or
supported. If you need a refresher, the tool&amp;#8217;s website is at <a
href="http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/office/index.html">http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/software/office/index.html

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The finer details of the discussion on the W3C list aside, I
have created a petition asking iCITA to open source the old version, version
1.0 (the one no longer viable for them, other than taking up storage space), to
the accessibility and developer communities at large, in the attempt to provide
us with something that will allow us to convert Microsoft content into
something accessible and usable for persons with disabilities.

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The petition is online at <a
href="http://www.petitiononline.com/amocwiz/">http://www.petitiononline..com/amocwiz/

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thank you for your time.

Kevin A.
Sesock, A+, NET+, CNA, MCSA
Assistive Technology Specialist
2nd Level Support Team
Technology Support Department
Information Technology Division
Oklahoma State University

&amp;quot;Hail
to the speaker, hail to the knower; joy to he who has understood, delight to
they who have listened.&amp;quot; --Odin

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