Dreamers, I've been thrilled at the response to my post about accessibility - have 10 people on my "interested in helping" list already!
One thing I noticed was that even with the disclaimers I put of "you don't have to be severely disabled" and "you don't have to know anything about web stuff" almost everybody apologised for their lack of knowledge or stated how minor their disability was. THIS IS OK. I just wanted to say if you're interested but didn't answer because you didn't think you "qualified", please email me [email protected] and let *me* decide if I need your help :) The other thing is, please recruit your disabled friends to the DW cause! The more and varied types of disabilities represented in the accessibility team, the more accessible we can make the site. If you have friends who are blind, deafblind, have trouble with typing or mousing, are dyslexic or on the autistic spectrum, etc etc., please let them know we are enthusiastic about making this work for THEM and would love their help! The accessibility testing page at <http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Accessibility_Testing > has been significantly updated and expanded, and other accessibility pages have had some updating too. Thank you to everybody who's helped with that - it's great to have others' ideas. Please feel free to add to them (or email me with ideas if you're too shy!) at any time. Cheers, Ricky -- Ricky Buchanan * [email protected] * http://notdoneliving.net/ ATMac - http://atmac.org/ - Apple products with a disability slant No Pity City - http://nopitycity.com/ - The best disability stuff in the galaxy! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
