[jaws-uk] Re: WEB ACCESSIBILITY

  • From: "Dr Norman Waddington" <warwickhouse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:47:08 -0000

Martin,

You are certainly not bitter just realistic.

Norman.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Dudley" <dudleym@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:30 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: WEB ACCESSIBILITY


> Having recently taken early retirement I couldn't give a monkey, but 
> having
> worked in a regional government office for the past 16 years I have had to
> battle with the local web designers to have their web sites made
> accessible. I gave up in the end, took as I said early retirement, and
> they're probably still doing just what they like to make sites look oh so
> nice for the sighted person.
>
> Am  I bitter, oh no, of course not.
>
> Martin
>
> Dr Norman Waddington recently said:-
>
>>Thanks Wendy,
>>
>>I signed it last week.
>>
>>Norman.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Wendy Sharpe" <w.sharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: "Jaws" <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 11:04 AM
>>Subject: [jaws-uk] WEB ACCESSIBILITY
>>
>>
>> >I expect many of you know about this already, but another list has 
>> >passed
>> >on
>> > the information that there is a Government website for E petitions, and 
>> > of
>> > particular importance to us is the one about web accessibility.  The 
>> > link
>> > is:
>> >
>> > http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/govaccessibility/
>> >
>> > So far there are only 550 signatures, and the deadline for signing is 
>> > 21
>> > February.  I don't know whether the petition goes far enough, but at 
>> > least
>> > we can show our interest by signing.
>> >
>> > Wendy
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