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Cyndi Rowland: changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act are afoot; help ensure the web is added to the law’s scope

I’m applying for an internship which would facilitate a web accessibility project.

John Slatin died last night.
Just last week I was talking about Maximum Accessibility with a student in preparation for a presentation; I got the book out and was reminded how excellent it really is. I didn’t know John well, but he was very well-respected in the accessibility community, and my few email exchanges with him [...]

Joe Clark provides the web page for the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (aka Metrolinx) as rendered by JAWS.
Ouch.

Clay Spinuzzi points to some recent events in web accessibility. The updates to Section 508 and the UAAG catch my eye.
Locally, now that Illinois has a web accessibility law, Western is moving less slowly to fix its web accessibility problems. I’m pushing folks here to create a standard testing protocol, and I’ve asked web accessibility [...]

Light on the blog as I’ve been heavy on everything else here lately.
Accessibility: the WCAG Samurai (Joe Clark &c.) have published the draft of their errata to WCAG 1.0. Also recently, the Illinois web accessibility bill passed the house unanimously; a signature from Blagojevich is all that’s needed to make it law. I’ve also been [...]

WCAG 2 is out. There is a diff-like version, but it’s not very well done.
And today I moderate a panel on accessibility at C&W. Good timing!

My del.icio.us shows that Friday I attended an accessibility workshop given by Jon Gunderson of UIUC. I’m happy to say I didn’t learn that much, which means I’ve been paying attention. But that’s not to discount the value of the workshop. I did pick up some good ideas, got a chance to use some new [...]

Our dean, working through our provost, asked me and a bunch of other folks from Western to attend Educause Midwest 2007 to learn some interesting things we can do to improve our IT climate. I’m not going to try to liveblog the conference (I’m spending my spare time grading, and wireless in the hotel is [...]

I meant to do this before the break, but better late than never. I just pitched in $77.77, which is about 1% of Joe’s goal (given a currency conversion). Joe’s asking for support for about four months. My guess is he’ll get done more in that time than most humans do in a year.
I’m most [...]