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From: smithj7
Date: Oct 9, 2006 6:50PM

What great resouces!! John, I loved Stanford Online Accessibility Program,
and referred it to our DOE section that is trying to assure accessiblity. I
specifically recommended the article 10 "Must Read" articles on AJAX,
Accessibility and Web 2 technology
- http://soap.stanford.edu/show.php?contentid=65 but also recommended the
one one the errors, popups and the understanding how accessiblity technology
"reads" a site. I told the folks on gut insticnt to use access keys, but
didn't have a clue why. Your suggested articles are helping to understand
the reasons behind the suggestions.

Please know that your time and information is being used. I can't thank you
enough! I am passing on this information to the team working on a specific
program, trying to assimilate it to develop some formate to share it with
other folks in Florida. CA and FL currently have the most folks in the US
with visual impairments. Florida because of older users, CA because of
population alone. Unfortunately, most folks in our state appear to be far
behind what CA or many others are doing.

I wish I could spend a week with someone like you showing me hands on
examples. I have a hidden disability and learn from general from specific
and am a kinestic learner without the tools to test the ideas. Your
articles are helping to get a better grasp of what I call my "gut feelings".
It is giving me power to help these programmer make this particular program
better. I can't thank you and the folks on this list enough! Inch by inch
Florida is going to become a place that all users can actually have equal
access to the web. I just wished it was not so difficult! Thanks again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Foliot" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: "'WebAIM Discussion List'" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] ASP web application validation format


> smithj7 wrote:
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>> I was thinking that the error page might be able to redisplay with a
>> new title - errors on form, and error box at the top of the page
>> with access keys to the fields with errors using an unorder list, no
>> focus on the form so the screen reader would read the page as a new
>> page and discover it was an error page.
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> Accesskeys?
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> Using Accesskeys - Is it worth it? -
> http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=32
> Accesskeys and Reserved Keystroke Combinations -
> http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=43
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> JF
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> John Foliot
> Academic Technology Specialist
> Stanford Online Accessibility Program
> http://soap.stanford.edu
> Stanford University
> 560 Escondido Mall
> Meyer Library 181
> Stanford, CA 94305-3093
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