You might want to send this to a developers list. I am sure someone will think it's important enough to take it up.
On 11/8/05, Gary Cramblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > -- Adam Moore Founding Member http://www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
