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RE: 2 things: WAI WCAG 2.0; Jakob Nielsen.

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From: Jim Thatcher
Date: Dec 7, 2001 8:18AM


According to John Slatin, here in Austin, whose organization did purchase
the report, the PDF is accessible. This is a JAWS user saying it, not an
Adobe representative!

Jim
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http://jimthatcher.com
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From: WebAIM forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]On Behalf Of
Prof Norm Coombs
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 9:37 PM
To: WebAIM forum
Subject: Re: 2 things: WAI WCAG 2.0; Jakob Nielsen.


On that report. I could only find a pdf version. I wrote the webmaster
about a better version and have been ignored.
Norman
At 12:26 PM 12/5/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>First thing: I am curious about the timeframe expected for the WAI's
>WCAG 2.0 to become the official recommendation. Do any of you who work
>with them have any guesses? I just started looking at some of the draft
>documents and found the checkpoint mapping between WCAG 1.0 items and
>draft 2.0 items very interesting (at
>http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2001/08/24-mapping.html ), but am not sure how
>much I should be concerned about it at this time.
>
>Second thing: I was very pleased to hear a while back that usability
>guru Jakob Nielsen was doing some Web accessibility studies, and now he
>and a colleague have a report out. Unfortunately, it costs $190! With
>the budget cutbacks we're experiencing, I don't know if I'll be able to
>get a copy. Has anyone seen it? There is an Alertbox article at
>http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20011111.html . The download info, table
>of contents and summary of the full report are at
>http://www.nngroup.com/reports/accessibility/
>
>Thanks,
>Carol
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