Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Here's a link to our presentation website for the urbana-champaign Independent Media Center.
http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu/publish/IMC/IMCWebSite/presentation.html
and Old IMC library website
and New IMC library website
posted by Brandi Tuttle on 1:01 PM
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Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Here is a link to my (perhaps overlapping) Discovery Presentation on advertising on the web.
--Samantha
posted by Samantha on 1:01 PM
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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
hello everyone. i am posting my site for the discovery assignment. see that here:
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~btuttle/photoshop/photoshop_disc.html
i did this very stupidly and i have lots of big images in there that take forever to load. this is very ironic as i'll be showing everyone all about photoshop and how to optimize images, yet i didn't.
anyway, please click on all the links and start letting the images load as soon as you get into class.
sorry about that, "do what i say, not what i do." ;)
posted by Brandi Tuttle on 10:31 AM
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Thursday, April 10, 2003
I just wanted to pass this along in case anyone was interested. I just received it from the tourbus listserv, which can be found at: http://www.TOURBUS.com. have a good day!
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More 508 Stuff
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Last week we talked about both section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and sites you can visit to learn how to make your Web pages 508 compliant. I received a BUNCH of email about that post.
Pat writes
Here in NYS, we must adhere to the W3C guidelines for website accessibility. They are SLIGHTLY different than the Section 508 ones. I have lots of links at
http://www.mhric.org/pat/resources.html
on this topic. I have been teaching Website Accessibility for several years now. In fact, it became policy in NYS in December of 2000: a full 6 months before the federal law in June of 2001.
JL adds that
most states have also adopted ADA web site compliance directives.
Consequently most state's web sites, sub-sites, agency sites, must comply with 508 standards.
Since I commonly work with underfunded conservation districts and environmental nonprofits who typically have web work done by volunteers, I have free online workshops on Accessibility and security issues at:
http://www.cyber-sierra.com/workshops/index.htm
The workshops are designed to help do-it-yourself types and beginning web designers get a handle on dealing with 508 compliance.
If you are interested in tools to check your site for 508 compliance, Ihor notes that
The University of Toronto's Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) and the TRACE Center at the University of Wisconsin have jointly developed "A-Prompt", a web accessibilty verifier
program. It does check for the 16 web design rules you mentioned in your article. See:
http://aprompt.snow.utoronto.ca/
The software is available free of charge.
But what if you don't want to download any new software? Well, "M"
has dug up a site s/he found to be very helpful - you can check your whole site for compliance:
http://www.cynthiasays.com/
And, of course, don't forget Bobby at
http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp.
And for those of you who don't have a Web site and are wondering why I'm even talking about section 508, here are two comments that might interest you. First, Phillip writes
The U.S. government has a rule that says that any software considered for purchase by the government must have a statement describing how well the software conforms to section 508 guidelines ...
For now, compliance with section 508 is NOT required for the government to purchase your software. The only requirement is that you document how well you comply. Obviously, better compliance is a competitive advantage in getting a government contract. This is slowly changing, however. Although the law
doesn't require compliance, some universities and government bodies are changing their individual policies to requiring compliance before purchasing software.
So what does this have to do with you and me? Well, considering that the government buys a LOT more software than you and I do, the government's [future] requirement that the software it purchases be
508 compliant will probably mean that MOST commercial software programs will soon be 508 compliant.
Finally, Sam adds
I just wanted to write you to thank you for covering section 508 in one of your Tourbus newsletters. As you are already aware from the numerous blind callers you get on Website Wednesday
Nights on WGN radio, there is a large base of blind and visually-impaired computer users who listen to your show. The Internet has proven to be both a godsend and a curse to the disabled community. It has provided access to information that was previously not available to us in a timely or economic fashion,
but the barriers created by emerging technology and incompatible design have also created barriers to this information as well. You don't know how frustrating it is to visit a site in order to obtain information, conduct a transaction or fill out a form, only to be met with these stumbling blocks that shut the door to
the Internet in your face. Of course, this problem lies way beyond the Internet. Much more insidious than access to the web is the problem of access to noncompliant software.
Unfortunately, enough companies still do not feel obligated to use programming
techniques to render their software accessible to assistive technologies. And of course going beyond the computer are all the stand-alone digital devices, DVD players, etc. which do not
provide accessible alternatives. It's a shame that accessibility has become such a hot topic only so recently. Of course, CAST and Bobby, along with other accessibility tools and standards, have been around long before Section 508, but oftentimes it takes a law to wake up corporate America and get them to realize that
they need to cater to all of their consumers.
posted by Brandi Tuttle on 4:41 PM
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Wednesday, March 19, 2003
HTML and CSS Resumes-validated
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~btuttle/resume.html
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~btuttle/resume_css.html
posted by Brandi Tuttle on 10:45 AM
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Sunday, February 16, 2003
For your consideration:
Here is my w3c validated page.
posted by Samantha on 6:03 PM
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Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Here is one of my favorite library blogs.
posted by Samantha on 1:26 PM
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