[WG: Accessibility] FW: FW: Sakai is being recognized as "taking accessibility seriously" on the WebAIM e-mail list

[Richwine, Brian L]

Nate wrote:
> Perhaps one of the best things we could do would be to come up with a good statement about how our accessibility processes match up to the NFB's and why we are not pursuing certification at this time.

Noah wrote:
> Perhaps one of the best things we could do would be to come up with a good statement about how our accessibility processes match up to the NFB's and why we are not pursuing certification at this time.

Thanks for your insights. This idea sounds important to me, too. I'll be sure and craft such a statement for the revised Current Accessibility information. I'll post it to the accessibility list and send it both of you in case you have time to review it and provide comments.

Thanks again!,
  Brian

From: accessibility-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:accessibility-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Noah Botimer
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 1:18 PM
To: Nate Angell
Cc: accessibility at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [WG: Accessibility] FW: FW: Sakai is being recognized as "taking accessibility seriously" on the WebAIM e-mail list

Even though self-certification is a good faith measure, I think we stack up pretty well. That is, I like Nate's suggestion here.

The thing that concerned me immediately upon reading the list was that it is quite short and highly heterogenous. It is a good observation that others in our software space are on the list and we may be asked about it. But I am concerned about jumping the hoops a 1.5B market cap can afford to lay out Perhaps one of the best things we could do would be to come up with a good statement about how our accessibility processes match up to the NFB's and why we are not pursuing certification at this time.
By the way, none of this is to discredit the work or recognition of NFB or any on the list. I just think we have a good story of our own, by way of significant hard work on behalf of many obligated institutions and skilled, motivated individuals.

Thanks,
-Noah

On Jan 6, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Nate Angell wrote:


For what it's worth, I have been asked by potential Sakai adopters about NFB certification, so while it may not be fully valuable, it can count for something in some people's eyes.

Perhaps one of the best things we could do would be to come up with a good statement about how our accessibility processes match up to the NFB's and why we are not pursuing certification at this time.

- Nate
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Michael S Elledge <elledge at msu.edu<mailto:elledge at msu.edu>> wrote:

Sorry about that folks, my bad. I thought I'd read in their materials that an evaluation was free. Clearly not. Thanks for setting me straight about the fees.

I still worry that it could become a disadvantage for Sakai, though, especially given NFB's high profile and activism.

Mike


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