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From: Christine Opitz
Date: Jan 14, 2002 11:06AM

Carol,
My $.02 regarding accessible development efforts:

As a ColdFusion developer, I have benefited from Macromedia's involvement with CF and Dreamweaver in that they have adapted their TopStyle (for CF) to accomodate and check for some accessibility issues. Also Dreamweaver, has an accessibility tool built in as well. Most editing platforms are heading that direction for accessibility using CSS, and other alt. tag and file descripton fields.

I use the built in tools to guide my development, and either BOBBY Worldwide or A-prompt to check for overall accessibility. From a developer's standpoint, I think the more that is learned and practiced, the better the development efforts; it's not a parting of the Red Sea to develop for an accessible environment, more like a few accomodations in my coding...
for what it's worth...
Christine

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Hi,

I am curious about what others who use ColdFusion, PHP, etc. (that allow
lots of different people to update Web content) have done about the
accessibility issues. In theory, it would be great if the Web Authoring
Tools guidelines were followed to aid and abet creation of accessible
content by everyone, but I'm not sure how practical that is. We have
thought of at least having a little help file and some training for the
most common issues, such as meaningful link text and alt text for
images. Most of our clients just update text at the moment, but I can
see this issue growing and growing!

Thanks,
Carol

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