[Athen] FW: AT initiative (your attention please)

[Terry Thompson]

CATEA's AT Wiki still exists: 
http://atwiki.assistivetech.net/

I'm not able to connect to it at the moment so maybe they're having
technical difficulties, but I know it's alive and well because I was just
talking to them about it at CSUN. 

Terry


> -----Original Message-----

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org 

> [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Berkowitz, Daniel J

> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:35 AM

> To: greg at lecshare.com; Access Technologists in Higher 

> Education Network

> Subject: Re: [Athen] FW: AT initiative (your attention please)

> 

> Until recently such a Wiki did exist at the Georgia Tech 

> Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access 

> (CATEA) - caretakers of the National Public website of 

> Assistive Technology. They had a a Wiki devoted to all things 

> Adaptive, Assistive and otherwise having to do with Access Technology.

> 

> Unfortunately it appears to have disappeared. 

> 

> 

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> >-----Original Message-----

> >From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org 

> [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On 

> >Behalf Of Greg Kraus

> >Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:22 AM

> >To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network

> >Subject: Re: [Athen] FW: AT initiative (your attention please)

> >

> >One solution would be to set up a Wiki where ATHEN members, 

> or maybe a 

> >select group of testers from within ATHEN could review products for 

> >accessibility.

> >You could come up with a template that rates various areas 

> of software 

> >accessibility (something like a VPAT?).  That way an "accessibility 

> >tester" can add comments to a particular area of the review 

> as opposed 

> >to doing a full-blown test of the software.

> >Collectively you could build up quite a resource of unbiased 

> reviews of 

> >software.

> >

> >Greg Kraus

> >

> >LecShare, Inc.

> >www.lecshare.com

> >

> >

> >--- "Berkowitz, Daniel J" <djbrky at bu.edu> wrote:

> >

> >> ATTENTION ATHEN MEMBERS:

> >>

> >> -----Original Message-----

> >> From: Kenneth Sawicki [mailto:ksawicki at avc.edu]

> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:45 AM

> >> To: Alternate Media

> >> Subject: RE: AT initiative

> >>

> >> I wasn't here yesterday, but what Bob is saying hits the 

> mark... I've 

> >> been thinking of doing something like that, and perhaps I 

> should quit 

> >> thinking about doing something, and do it!!! I'm soooo tired of 

> >> reading, or hearing, "this Assistive Technology is totally 

> >> accessible, or is Section 508 compliant", and I try to use it, and 

> >> can't..., And I don't think it's my inability to use Assistive 

> >> Technology.

> >>

> >> -Ken

> >>

> >> -----Original Message-----

> >> From: Ron Stewart

> >> [mailto:ron.stewart at dolphinusa.com]

> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:58 AM

> >> To: Alternate Media

> >> Subject: RE: AT initiative

> >>

> >> That conversation has come up repeatedly and was part of the 

> >> discussion when Section 508 was on the horizon many moons 

> ago. NIST 

> >> refused to step up to the plate or was too expensive.  We 

> really do 

> >> need a form of UL labs for access.  Let the buyer beware, but I am 

> >> really tired of back of the bus access!

> >>

> >> One of my common policy recommendation to the collleges and 

> >> universities that I have worked with in the last decade is that 

> >> access be part of their own institutional branding of web spaces.

> >>

> >> This needs to be an internal process because in order for 

> it to work 

> >> there has to be ownership.  I be!ieve AFB has a certification 

> >> program, but it is VI centric, and does not deal effectively with 

> >> cognitive precessing related disabiities.

> >>

> >> Ron

> >>

> >> -----Original Message-----

> >> From: rmartinengo at gmail.com

> >> To: "Alternate Media"

> >> <altmedia at htclistserv.htctu.fhda.edu>

> >> Sent: 3/27/07 10:30 AM

> >> Subject: RE: AT initiative

> >>

> >> Ron,

> >>

> >> Sadly, it appears the main selling point for these 

> programs is that 

> >> they measure legal and technical compliance, rather than what is 

> >> truly accessible and usable - quantatative versus qualitative 

> >> analysis.

> >>

> >> Wouldn't it be great if there was a 'good housekeeping' stamp of 

> >> accessibility that was more than an automated list of check points?

> >> Perhaps

> >> a nonprofit group that would combine the benefits of technical 

> >> compliance with real-world usability analysis. Someone 

> should start 

> >> this company!

> >>

> >> Bob

> >>

> >>

> >> "And this does nothing to insure the accessibility of their sites, 

> >> someone must be laffing all the way to the bank. We have discussed 

> >> the use of automated evaluators on every disability list that I am 

> >> one, and why the do not insure access. You can not just 

> throw money 

> >> and technology at the problem."

> >>

> >> Ron Stewart

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