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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Jul 28, 2005 7:45AM

On 7/28/05, Rachael M Kircher < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> I need to create a document that describes the knowledge, skills, and
> abilities a person must have to be an accessible web designer. Does anyone
> have descriptions they can share or ideas that should be on the list?
>
> I know it must start with an understanding of Section 508 of the
> Rehabilitation Act and any state mandates. I am just not sure where to take
> it from there.

Careful there, I interviewed people who could recite the DDA, 508 and
the WCAG to me, and new _nothing_ about implementing them properly. A
good "accessible" web developer needs to know the theory and how to
implement it in the real dirty user agent world.

I started showing them pages we had done and asked them to tell me how
they would test for accessibility, what are problems on the pages and
how they would tackle them.

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