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Re: Meet before meeting?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean Foster)
Wed Nov 8 14:04:19 2000
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To: Kathleen Cahill <kcahill@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bushnell@MIT.EDU, jfoster@MIT.EDU, jfoster@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 2000 10:56:59 EST."
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 13:15:37 -0500
From: Jean Foster <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
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Resent-From: Jean Foster <jfoster@MIT.EDU>
Hi Kathy,
I haven't heard back from the student consultants yet, although when I met with
them last week they did say they had a consultant lined up. I'm not sure what
the problem is. It may be up to the consultant to contact me.
I was hoping that the next time we meet we could have the consultant there. It
might be good for us to get together and come up with a clear explanation of
what we want from the student, but I don't know if that needs to be done this
week.
Here is what I wrote for the job description:
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Title: Software Accessiblity Guidelines
This is for the IS Integration "Software Accessibliity" project team (see
the project notebook at:
http://web.mit.edu/is/integration/projects/softaccessibili
ty
We need someone to take the IBM Software Accessibility Guidelines (linked to
from http://www-3.ibm.com/able/accesssoftware.html ) and turn them into a
matrix that would include general UI guidelines, Java guidelines and Web UI
guidelines with links to both "end user" perspective examples, probably in the
form of screen shots, and coding examples for programmers.
The idea is to make software accessibility issues easy to understand for both
in-house developers and non-developers who need to make decisions about
purchasing or licensing software for MIT.
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-jean-
