[Athen] ATHEN reply to 508 refresh

[Gunderson, Jon R]

Ron,
I would be interested in  it too.

I attended the public hearing by phone yesterday and the comments were very interesting.

Some of the themes from the public hearing:


1.       We need an update soon, the current ICT is very out of date and industry is losing interest in implementing accessibility

2.       People praised the new ICT option for directly allowing WCAG 2.0 Level AA conformance to be used for compliance to ICT in some cases (web content)

3.       Many people felt the new trimmer requirements were in complete and need revisions

4.       People with disabilities testifying felt the process is broken, accessibility is not being implemented and Adobe PDF files were singled out as major problem or example of one person testifying, even though it is technically possible to make PDF accessible

Jon

From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Gaeir Dietrich
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:35 PM
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Subject: RE: [Athen] ATHEN reply to 508 refresh

I am happy to participate.


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Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich
High Tech Center Training Unit of the
California Community Colleges
De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
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From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu> [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu]<mailto:[mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu]> On Behalf Of Ron Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:19 AM
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Subject: [Athen] ATHEN reply to 508 refresh

Good morning all, I hope you had a restful holiday and are off to a good start to the Winter term.

I have had several requests for input to the draft 508 refresh proposal.  Are there any of you willing to take this on as a project, we also will probably solicit sign-on from some of our partner organizations.

Ron Stewart
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