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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

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Subject: [WebAIM] Check of an Accessibility Statement


Hi Everyone,

Delurking to ask a question :) Enjoy the list a lot-I learn so much!

I have created an accessibility statement for my site (don't look at the
site right now, you are seeing the old version of the site still):

http://gaccin.pair.com/ghosty/accessibility.htm

I wanted to get some feedback on it. Does it make sense? Would you add
anything? Delete anything? I have taken the free template from dive into
accessibility (I haven't put up the credits below yet) and expanded on
it and changed it a bit.

Oh and I know that access keys may not be the best idea, however I have
used them for right now...So don't flog me John!! I will likely be
changing this part in the next few months when I get some free time.

Cheers and thanks

Lisa

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