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From: Bevi Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Tue, Nov 10 2009 1:40PM
Subject: INFO: broadcast on Open Government
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Today our local Washington-DC NPR radio station had a one-hour show on Open
Government, including PDFs, Flash, HTML, documents and accessibility. Guest
speakers were from Adobe and the Sunlight Foundation.
Available for online listening:
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2009-11-10/obstacles-open-government
Radio station is WAMU 88.5, www.wamu.org and it was the Kojo Nnamdi Show.
--Bevi Chagnon
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From: Al Sparber
Date: Tue, Nov 10 2009 2:40PM
Subject: Re: INFO: broadcast on Open Government
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From: "Bevi Chagnon | PubCom" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> Today our local Washington-DC NPR radio station had a one-hour show on
> Open
> Government, including PDFs, Flash, HTML, documents and accessibility.
> Guest
> speakers were from Adobe and the Sunlight Foundation.
Fascinating. The article led me here:
http://www.adobe.com/opengov/
I happened to be in a 64-bit browser so, of course, there was no Flash
support. I got a blank screen except for a "this page requires Flash"
button - which was useless for me. So I view the source code and there is a
text-based version of the page - except that it's set to display: none.
So, I turn off CSS in my browser and there is the info.
This (Adobe) is in a leadership role in discussions with *my* government?
God help us.
--
Al Sparber - PVII
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From: Jared Smith
Date: Tue, Nov 10 2009 5:40PM
Subject: Re: INFO: broadcast on Open Government
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Al Sparber < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> This (Adobe) is in a leadership role in discussions with *my* government?
> God help us.
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2009/11/accessibility_and_adobe_open_g.html
Jared
From: Al Sparber
Date: Tue, Nov 10 2009 6:15PM
Subject: Re: INFO: broadcast on Open Government
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From: "Jared Smith" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] INFO: broadcast on Open Government
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Al Sparber < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >
> wrote:
>
>> This (Adobe) is in a leadership role in discussions with *my* government?
>> God help us.
>
> http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2009/11/accessibility_and_adobe_open_g.html
That's good. However, the fix that would have helped me would take all of 30
seconds :-) I can understand the position that Andrew Kirkpatrick is in. I'm
positive from reading his personal posts that his heart is in
accessibility - whereas I think maybe it's Adobe's wallet that's into
accessibility. It's just a feeling :-)
--
Al