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Re: New Book and Invitation to Int'l Commission onTechnology & Accessibility Meeting at CSUN

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From: Karl Dawson
Date: Mar 17, 2006 2:10AM

On 17/03/06, Christian Heilmann < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > > This is just a heads-up that a new book will be coming out this Summer
> by
> > > Apress
> > > entitled "Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory
> Compliance."
> > > This is
> > > an update to our previous book by co-authors Jim Thatcher, Cynthia
> Waddell,
> > > et al entitled "Constructing Accessible Web Sites."
> >
> > Bruce Lawson mentioned to me the other week that an update was being
> > brought out, but he didn't mention the change in title...I would have
> > looked for "Constructing Accessible Web Sites version 2.0" or
> something...
>
> I was a bit baffled by the title as well. I contributed to this book
> with a chapter on accessible JavaScript. The old title was a bit
> misleading according to the editor and the amount of spam emails he
> gets from construction companies proves him right :-)


haha, I can imagine.

The new title will look very good on the bookshelf at work it must be said.
I just added it to my Amazon wish list - thanks for the heads-up Cynthia...
and thanks in advance to everyone involved!



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Karl Dawson
http://www.thatstandardsguy.co.uk
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