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Dear All,
Event summary ==================================
DRC Formal Investigation into Web Accessibility
Initial briefing meeting:
Monday 28th April 2003
6pm: Refreshments
6:30pm - 8:30pm: Meeting
Level 6 Suite (Room B)
City University
Northampton Square
London
EC1V 0HB
Directions & Map to Northampton Square entrance:
http://www-hcid.soi.city.ac.uk/aDirections.html
Event details ==================================
As you may know, the Disability Rights Commission has just launched a
Formal Investigation into Web site accessibility.
The Centre for Human-Computer Interaction at City University London
has been appointed to conduct a programme of research to support this
Formal Investigation and I (Professor Helen Petrie) will be heading
the research team to undertake this work.
As one of the first steps in the research, we are contacting those
involved in web site design who might be interested in the issues
surrounding web accessibility. We invite you to come to an initial
meeting to brief you about the Investigation and the research we will
be undertaking and to elicit your views on designing for the web with
accessibility in mind. We are particularly keen to make
recommendations to support web developers in designing accessible
sites, so we are interested in hearing about the problems you
encounter in developing accessible sites and ideas for what kinds of
additional support might be useful.
You can read the press release that was issued to publicize the
Investigation at:
http://www.drc-gb.org/newsroom/newsdetails.asp?id=393§ion=1
We will hold a series of meetings and issue regular bulletins about
the research, to keep you informed and seek your views at different
key points during the research process. Our research will be
completed by the end of September 2003 and the Disability Rights
Commission will issue their report on the Formal Investigation by the
end of 2003.
We look forward to your active involvement in this exciting project.
If you would like to participate in the initial briefing meeting
and/or be kept informed about progress of the Investigation, please
fill in the details below and email back to: [log in to unmask]
Yours sincerely,
Helen Petrie
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
City University, London
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