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RE: Check of an Accessibility Statement

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From: Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC
Date: Jun 10, 2005 3:09PM

Well, my personal input is that accessibility statements should be in
policy for those stakeholders and developers creating the content. It is
most useful in large organizations or organizations where you need to
communicate the goals to new users or uninformed users. It does produce
a small amount of awareness when viewed by the public at large, but
publicizing your accessibility statement has little practical use - just
make your content accessible!

I'd also like to point out that NONE of the accessibility testers should
be trusted as verifying section 508 compliance. There is no automated
gold-star, although they have their place as a forensic tool for
studying content. In practical use, I find the W3C validation to be
about of equal use as any of the automated 508 compliance tools.

Regards,

Norman