Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)
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On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote:
>
> > I'd have her hide for using .docs anyway - if the documents
> > aren't all readable text-only (with a screen reader for the
> > blind/visually impaired or any other appropriate technologies for
> > those with other impairments), then she ought to consider using
> > only plain HTML _anyway_ . No publicly available document should
> > mandate the use of a mouse - look at the good web accessibility
> > sites - and consider carefully the Americans with Disabilities
> > Act (or other appropriate local legislation).
>
> Yeah, I've been trying to point web folks at accessible design
> sites (the college is always posturing about its commitment to
> accessibility), but they're in love with this horrid "course
> management" software called Blackboard that they paid a lot of
> money for a few years back (they keep adding more and more of the
> website to it, making more and more content inaccessible), which
> breaks all text-based browsers I've tried and even breaks various
> and sundry Iceweasel extensions that make it keyboard-driven. It
> also has tabs, making tabbing through a near-impossibility (and a
> lot of the rest of the site uses javascript with no HTML-only
> alternative...*sigh*). So the point is she doesn't really have
> control over this since she more or less has to use Blackboard, so
> it's already too late for her not to mandate mousage (fortunately,
> I can jump the mouse around using keybindings in stumpwm (providing
> I'm not ripping a backup of some of my music off of a CD or doing
> some other resource-intensive task), but unfortunately can't make
> it click from the keyboard).
I've attended a few meeting at NYU involving free culture, free software
and law. The nyu free culture folks wanted to replace 'blackboard'
because of their software patent and such. They are now testing a
replacement[0] called 'alex'.
- -K
[0] http://www.nyu.edu/its/alex/
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