http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/ Web Accessibility Perth Interest Group Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:34:23 GMT Martin http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/29 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/29 Okay, let me introduce myself. My name is Martin Smales and I am profoundly deaf since I was born. I can give you a deaf person's perspective of gonig through Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:03:03 GMT Charles McCathieNevile http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/28 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/28 Hello all, Actually I am interested in what anyone knows about accessibility at school level. It seems to me that currently anyone who manages to get through Thu, 03 Feb 2005 04:31:27 GMT msmales@... http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/27 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/27 Hi Harry!!! I am wondering where you'd been :) I'll jot down your email addy so we don't lose touch. Martin Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:44:47 GMT accessiblewebperth http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/26 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/26 I started this group a few years ago to try and foster accessibility in perth. It started with a whimper and went down from there:( Then Accessibility was an Tue, 01 Feb 2005 03:53:40 GMT Charles McCathieNevile http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/25 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/25 Hi folks, this is a cross-post so you know about each other. WANAU is an australia Universities' accessibility network, who will be holding an event in Perth Tue, 01 Feb 2005 02:28:38 GMT Charles McCathieNevile http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/24 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/24 Hi David, indeed I do remember you. (If I recall correctly I think the only time I came to Perth and didn't see you was an 18-hour visit for an internet Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:22:56 GMT Gough, David http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/23 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/23 Hi Charles Remember me? CALM is still actively involved in promoting accessible websites, but not sure if this group still has many members. Regards, David ... Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:26:20 GMT Charles McCathieNevile http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/22 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/22 Hi folks. Is this list still populated with people? I got a query at OzeWAI about whether there were other folks in the West who were interested in Wed, 03 Apr 2002 15:34:57 GMT Charles McCathieNevile http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/21 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/21 Fair point, and a good reminder to get. But as it happens I am not running linux. The issue I had was that installing office seriously broke other aspects of Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:22:11 GMT Harry Woodrow http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/20 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/20 Isnt this confusing the issue though Charles...If you are running Linux Abi Word or Star office are quite capable of reading Word documents and is free so can Wed, 03 Apr 2002 13:58:04 GMT Charles McCathieNevile http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/19 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/19 On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Tom Worthington wrote: ... There is an MS-Word version as well, but I don't understand why they didn't do a web version. Oh yeah. But since Tue, 02 Apr 2002 23:57:52 GMT Tom Worthington http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/18 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/18 ... There is an MS-Word version as well, but I don't understand why they didn't do a web version. A list of all the Australian accessibility guidelines I could Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:55:06 GMT Harry Woodrow http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/17 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/17 Dana has given me prermission to send this to members of this group too. In my view it is a useful start rather than a finished work, but it is well worth Mon, 01 Apr 2002 10:35:17 GMT Harry Woodrow http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/16 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/16 I would agree Charles...There seemed to be a real acceptance of the need for and the benifit of accessibility. We are moving forward I think. The main weakness Mon, 01 Apr 2002 01:49:47 GMT Charles McCathieNevile http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/15 http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/accessiblewebperthIG/message/15 Well, I sent a review. Major comment was that it was frustrating to have to read this in PDF - that isn't all that easy for me, but isn't a big terrible thing