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Thank you
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kathleen Cahill)
Fri Jun 1 14:23:20 2001
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:24:56 -0400
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From: Kathleen Cahill <kcahill@MIT.EDU>
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Dear Team;
Thanks to all of you for your work on this project. See Greg Anderson's
note below.
Kathy
>Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 11:49:57 -0400
>From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
>Organization: MIT Information Systems
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>To: kcahill@mit.edu
>CC: azary@mit.edu
>Subject: [Fwd: Software Accessibility Policy and Guidelines]
>
>Kathy,
> Congratulations to you and the team! Nice work!
>Greg
>
>"Susan S. Minai-Azary" wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> We would like to announce the development of a new Institute wide
>> Software Accessibility Policy for software that is purchased by or
>> developed at MIT for general use. The Software Accessibility Policy
>> and Guidelines have been combined with the existing Web Accessibility
>> information and are located at http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/sw/ .
>> (They replace the former web accessibility information that was
>> located at http://web.mit.edu/ada/waccess.html). The guidelines
>> apply to new or updated software, web pages, and web-based products
>> to be used in administration and services, courses of instruction,
>> departmental programs and Institute sponsored activities.
>>
>> The site contains an updated Information Technology Accessibility
>> Policy as well as checklists for purchasers of web-based and software
>> products. These checklists contain visual examples of accessibility
>> features to look for and may help in asking the right questions of
>> vendors. There are also guidelines for developers of software and
>> web pages with links to techniques on how to build in accessibility.
>> Help is available by contacting the ATIC lab (atic@mit.edu) or
>> writing to web-access@mit.edu. Facilities for accessibility testing
>> are available at the I/T Integration Laboratory (itlab@mit.edu).
>>
>> Quick Start classes will be offered on this topic. The next one is
>> June 13 from 12-1 in the N42 Demo Center. There will be articles
>> forthcoming on this topic in the I/S Newsletter and other MIT
>> publications. Thanks to the Project Team members: Jean Foster,
>> Barbara Roberts, Jim Repa, Roberta Crumrine, Jeff Harrington, Mary
>> Ellen Bushnell, Kathy Cahill (team leader), and Nina Davis-Millis.
>>
>> Regards
>> Susan Minai-Azary
>> I/T Architecture and Infrastructure Practice Director
>> Chair of MIT I/T Architecture Group
>
