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Submission + - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 now final (w3.org)

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beetle496

on Friday December 12, 2008 @12:48PM

beetle496 writes: "It has been going on nine years now, but finally there are formal standards for web accessibility for technologies other than HTML. They ask that you start with the press release (lots of links) but regulars might be more entertained by the last time WCAG made the /. front page. Many folks here will point out that web accessibility is old hat, and by implication this is hardly news, but if you do web development for any government organization, you should expect that accessibility is a base requirement. The Section 508 standards are to be updated (relatively) soon too."

Submission + - Update on NFB v. Target (w3.org)

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beetle496

on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @08:02AM

beetle496 writes: "This is TFA for now:

This email is to update the list regarding the NFB v. Target web accessibility litigation.

Today the judge in the matter has issued her opinion regarding the motion to certify a class action. The motion has been granted and now moves forward as a class action on behalf of persons who are blind in California and in the United States who have attempted to access the Target.com website and as a result have been denied access to the enjoyment of goods and services offered in Target stores.

ICDRI will post the opinion once permission has been granted for us to post it.

Best regards,
Cynthia Waddell

Background is available.

Let the flaming begin about how your freedom of expression trumps my civil rights.

The writing is on the wall: Learn to write valid code or get different work."

Submission + - Sun Microsystems quits GSA multiple award contract (govexec.com)

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beetle496

on Monday September 17, 2007 @10:26AM

beetle496 writes: "From TFA:

Sun Microsystems Inc. announced Friday that it is canceling its multiple award schedule contract with the General Services Administration amid an ongoing investigation into the contract’s renewal and the company’s pricing for information technology products and services.
The article hints at scandal, but I am betting that the problem is more likely incompetence and prejudicial Windows-centric contract vehicles that make it all but impossible for Sun to compete. How hard is it to believe that Lurita Doan could be one of the rare bureaucrats that understands technology (more so than Brian Miller and the three underlings she vetoed)?"

Submission + - Judge denies Diebold request to block ES&S pac

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beetle496

on Tuesday April 03, 2007 @04:19PM

beetle496 writes: "Computer World reports that Judge denies Diebold request to block ES&S pact with Massachusetts. This is a follow-up to earlier /. story that Vendor [Diebold] contends state erred in selecting AutoMark voting machines of rival. From TFA: "The suit is still there, but they went zero for three yesterday," the spokesman said. No further hearings have been scheduled yet, he said. The actual accessibility concerns have been discussed over at the TEITAC ListServ, including a few telling observations from experts familar with accessible voting and at least one state insider."

Submission + - FCC site is dark!

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beetle496

on Saturday March 31, 2007 @07:42AM

beetle496 writes: "The FCC home page is currently returning an error, that cannot be good! Have they been hacked? And just when I wanted to write them to ask that they enforce their own rules under Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act for some basic consumer requirements for the Apple iPhone..."

Submission + - Blogspot.com post-beta blues

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beetle496

on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @10:00PM

beetle496 writes: "Despite what Blogger Status says, there is some trouble. My own long neglected blog lost its only recent post and the only blog I check on weekly has has gone dark (403 Forbidden)."

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