Chair Shines in World Wide Web Consortium
From: Inside CSULB - 09/01/2005 - Vol. 57, No. 16
By: Teresa Hagen

Wayne Dick, chair of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at California
State University, Long Beach, is involved in the World Wide Web Consortium's
Educational Outreach Working Group. The group is a component of the W3C's Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and Dick, who is visually handicapped, plays
a vital part in making accessibility recommendations, especially with
disabled users in mind. Dick says Web accessibility guidelines are divided
into three sets: One set focuses on content accessibility, the second set
concerns authoring tools, and the third set covers user-agent accessibility.
Discussions of accessibility must cover different kinds of disabilities, and
Dick believes innovations designed to help the disabled Web user can also
benefit non-disabled users. Dick supervised the introduction of WebAdapt2me,
a product enabling users to customize the Web-viewing experience. WebAdapt2me
features include spoken text, text/image magnification, independent text-size
adjustment, pop-up images, background concealment, browser-control
enlargement, and audio feedback as typing cues. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.csulb.edu/misc/inside/archives/vol_57_no_16/f2.htm

Links:
Wayne Dick
http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/coe/cecs/views/personnel/index.shtml

WAI
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

WebAdapt2me
http://www-306.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/WebAdapt2Me.html

Easy Web Browsing
http://www-3.ibm.com/able/solution_offerings/EasyWebBrowsing.html