[Athen] Accessibility Statements

[Heidi Scher]

Love that last line, Dan!!! ;-)

Have a good one!

Heidi

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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director
Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
ARKU 104
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104
479.575.7445 fax
479.575.3646 tdd
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Dan Comden <danc at uw.edu> wrote:


> Here's one. Yes, I'm a dreamer:

>

> "We try to be accessible in our products and services. We understand that

> accessibility is a process, not an end product. This means that we adhere

> to current standards toward this goal and where we fall short, we respond

> to customer concerns and complaints in a timely fashion. We won't treat

> accessibility as a single disability issue. We consider accessibility a

> core component of usability and will include testing for it as a primary

> step of our product development cycle. We don't want our employees to make

> false statements about the accessibility of our products and services, and

> if they are caught fudging, fibbing, or flat out lying about accessibility,

> we promise to publicly mock them before cutting them loose. We are just as

> cynical about VPATs as you are and because of this, we promise to use them

> as little as possible and instead refer to this mission statement. We'll

> include language that addresses accessibility in all our contracts with

> customers. We will steal the mice from our developers on a regular and

> random basis."

>

>

>

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ron Stewart <ron at ahead.org> wrote:

>

>> Good afternoon all, had an interesting request.  If you could set the

>> accessibility mission statement for a company what would you say?****

>>

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>>

>> Ron ****

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>>  --

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> -*- Dan Comden                       danc at uw.edu <danc at washington.edu>

>     Access Technology Center   www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/

>     University of Washington      UW Information Technology

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