I received the following email from the acting Director of the Assistive Technology Program at the U.S. Department of Education after he read my blog at http://phantomsdad.blogspot.com. Please let me know if you have received this forwarded email and if someone is following through with it. Thank you.
-- Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad) KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php --- An Open Letter to the Disabled of Massachusetts From: "Bailey, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greeting Gary, I would have much preferred more people-first language, but he article was great. I would like to run a Windows variant of Open Office through our formal Accessibility Review process. That protocol requires the involvement of at least one developer the on-site participation of an experienced user. Can you hook me up? We are in Washington, DC. Thanks. Bruce Bailey, Acting Director ED OCIO Assistive Technology Program 202-377-4932 --- He also added in a follow-up email: --- For my purposes, I need in-person access to someone knowledgeable about OO under Windows 2K (sorry) and live access (could be by phone) to an OO developer or liasion to a developer. I only need the two people for an hour. But since the testing will happen in my building in downtown Washington DC, it sure would be nice for the expert user volunteer to be local. There may be some advantage to Sun if they can keep their distance. Plausible deniabilty would be a good thing if my team ends up failling OO against the 508 standards. Speaking of which, we don't use the 508 standards in our testing. We use the ED standards, which are similar. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
