Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere! Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.
Today s podcast is a continuation of the coverage of the topic of Web accessibility. To assist the me with this topic, I am reaching out to Brent Norris, Web Developer from the great state of Hawaii.
Brent Norris has been a long time supporter of the WOW organization and the WOW Technology Minute. Additionally Brent?’s a veteran Web professional specializing in Web 2.0 websites and I am reaching out today to a request to share his thoughts on the topic. More specifically, I?’ve asked Brent to walk us through the specific steps that he takes when considering Web accessibility for his clients. I also asked him to take on the project of assessing the WOW Technology Minute website with the goal of aligning it with best practices and covering the topic from an educational perspective complete with a written report and audio interviews of the process.
Good afternoon Brent and thanks for the continued support. To hear Brent?’s response complete with his plans for the WOW Tech Minute Web accessibility project check out today s podcast at WOW Technology Minute
Stay tuned this week for more coverage on Web Accessibility and other great resources. Thanks for listening and watching today s WOW Technology Minute.
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BILL CULLIFER: Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere! Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute. Today?’s podcast is a continuation of the coverage on the topic of Web accessibility. To assist the me with this topic, I am reaching out to Brent Norris, Web Developer from the great state of Hawaii. Brent has been a long-time supporter of the WOW organization and the WOW Technology Minute. Additionally Brent is a veteran Web professional specializing in many Web 2.0 applications and websites. And I?’m reaching out to Brent today to request him share his thoughts on the topic. More specifically, I?’ve asked Brent to walk us through the specific steps that he takes when considering Web accessibility for a client. I?’ve also asked him to take on the project of assessing the WOW Technology Minute website with the goal in mind of aligning it to best practices, and covering the topic from an educational perspective complete with a written report and audio interview of the process. Good afternoon Brent and thanks for agreeing to this interview.
BRENT NORRIS: Aloha Bill, thanks for having me on.
BILL: Brent, can you share with the listeners of this podcast what you have in mind for the Web accessibility project of bringing the WOW Technology Minute site up to best practices?
BRENT: Sure Bill. Well as you know, we?’ve checked in with this topic time and time again from Web accessibility, Section 508 compliance and html standards, and our research has kind of been mixed. But we?’ll embark on it again and what we?’ll do is we?’ll do this within the context of what?’s important to a webmaster, generalist, so that they might be able to get a little closer to that Holy Grail of Section 508 compliance. And along the way what we?’ll do first is we?’ll analyze the wowtechminute.com site, evaluate it, where it stands now with tools that we?’ve already talked about in some of your other podcasts, as well as some of the tools and resources at section508.gov. And then we?’ll make some corrections if we can, to try and make the site more accessible for persons with disabilities. And make recommendations. So those recommendations will be for the other webmasters and generalists out there that are interested, trying to make their sites more accessible.
BILL: Today?’s WOW Technology Minute is sponsored by the Adobe Corporation and its creative license eSeminar series for Web professionals. Join Adobe software experts to learn how to use tightly integrated tools available in Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium. The Web eSeminars are designed for Web designers, developers and anyone interested in enhancing their workflows and learning new tips and tricks. And all of this will take place from April 23 – May 21, 2008. Check out all the great links on the WOW Technology Minute website