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From: John Goldthwaite
Date: Mon, Feb 04 2002 8:33AM
Subject: Accessibilty training
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I found that Knowbility has good material on developing accessible websites
at
www.knowbility.org - I wouldn't call it a course but almost.
Knowbility runs the Accessibility Internet Rallies (AIR), an initiative for
raising awareness and rallying communities around IT inclusion. It's a
one-day web competition that highlights the issue of access while providing
benefits for the whole community. Web consultants recieve training on
designing accessible sites and then practise these skills in building a
website for a non-profit organization.
View the nonprofit web sites that were built in one day for AIR competitions
in Austin, Denver and UT in 2000:
AIR-Austin sites http://www.knowbility.org/AIR-Austin/Annual/results.html
Rocky Mountain AIR sites http://www.rockymountainair.org/AIR/index.asp
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From: Kevin Price
Date: Tue, Feb 05 2002 1:10PM
Subject: Accessible Maps
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I am interested in what people are doing to make maps accessible to people
with disabilities. We want to make a map of campus as accessible as
possible. Does anyone have any examples of maps online that are more
accessible to people with disabilities?
Thank you,
Kevin Price
Coordinator-Assistive Computing Resource Center (ACRC)
Academic Computing and Media
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway / PL-002
San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397
909-880-5079 FAX 909-880-7075
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From: Kynn Bartlett
Date: Tue, Feb 05 2002 1:18PM
Subject: Re: Accessible Maps
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At 12:10 PM -0800 2/5/02, Kevin Price wrote:
>I am interested in what people are doing to make maps accessible to
>people with disabilities. We want to make a map of campus as
>accessible as possible. Does anyone have any examples of maps online
>that are more accessible to people with disabilities?
I just answered a question very similar to this in my web accessibility
class; my answer was roughly:
"You can't make maps accessible."
Of course that wasn't the full answer. The full answer is that you can
make the information contained in the map accessible -- you just have to
figure out what the map is trying to do, specifically, and figure out
a way to present that non-graphically.
That's not easy, mind you, but it's doable eventually. It may take a
lot of work and even custom programming on the server side, but it
can be done in most cases. It takes lots of describing and lots of deep
thinking.
So, for example, what's the purpose of the campus map? Start with that
question, on this -specific- campus map, and then go from there. How
will this information be used?
--Kynn
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