> Have you looked at the other assistive technologies available? Yes I work closely with our Office for Persons with Disabilities, even presented at their Assistive Technology Fair last year. This year I will as well and sounds like it will be even bigger than last year. There are some very cool technologies out there.
> England and the other countries requiring accessible web sites state 508 did > not meet their requirements for accessible web sites. So, how can we state > that Section 508 is the end-all solution when other governments are saying > it isn't enough? Not saying it was an end-all, just saying it was a decent place to start. At the very least it is forcing a lot of software developers and web designers to think accessible design. > AT developers have the User Agent Accessibility Guidelines they have to > follow. There is at least one person from the JAWS team on the working > group. > > Since JAWS uses Internet Explorer and the Microsoft Accessibility Agent, I > would hope that Microsoft starts supporting standards better than they do. > And that they stop with their proprietary stuff. Netscape has begun to > support OBJECT so we don't need to use EMBED/NOEMBED any longer unless you > want to support earlier versions. Oh my, do we want to support Netscape > 4.x? I don't and don't even come close to trying any longer. That is likely the biggest problem with Assistive technology, it relies on other over priced bloat ware that is unstable at the best of times and refuses to follow any standards properly. Why not move to Moz? Why build Assistive technologies for Linux where you have more control? Oh that is rhetorical. One thing I did notice with a lot of Assistive Technologies is that they rely heavily on Microsoft. I think that is a shame. Jesse ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
