[Chapter-delegates] Once again: accessibility and ISOC's website [was: Happy new year!]

[Klaus Birkenbihl]

Kathy,

thanks for your answer and for providing me with a surprise, and
apologies for the sarcasm in my mail - which I know is annoying but
also expresses frustration and annoyance over endless, fruitless
discussions. The surprise is: as reply to a concrete complain about an
issue the issue was addressed and a concrete action was taken
immediately - instead of the usual "we have big plans that will solve
everything. Go away with your tiny issue, come back next year."
(Plans, that cost time and money - and mostly produced more issues
than solved.)

So I'm inclined share Gunela's hope for improvements. We have these
technologies developed and standardized by IETF and W3C, there are the
tools that the community developed on base of these standards for
supporting communication and work on the net. While the world picks
them up, we should not be shy and also make best use of them. Would be
better than installing expensive products that violate the standards
and hardly do the job.

Thanks for triggering the change,
Klaus

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Kathy Brown schrieb am 09.01.2015 um 13:00:
> Klaus and all, 
>
> We did, indeed, pick up your message --I meant to reply yesterday but the day got away from me. We take time, though, to talk through your very helpful intervention and to make some immediate improvements as per your recommendations. 
>
> As you rightly point out, we need to bake accessibility into our design and initial planning for all communication. I agree that it is a quality issue. It is also a "principle" issue. If we say that the Internet is for everyone, we better mean everyone.
>
> We are about to begin an upgrade for the ISOC site. Now is the time to set the design and quality standards for all aspects of our communications. The BY THE NUMBERs piece was an attempt to make data alive--something I think that is very important. Help us think through and perfect how to make these type of design experiments work for everyone.
>
> Lia Kiessling will be point on this for Staff. Expert input is key to the process so I asked her to reach out to you. There's also the Disability and Special Needs Chapter that both you and Lia can coordinate with.  I believe you have Lia's Skype details so I'll leave it with the two of you to start this needed process.​
>
> Thank you, again, for your quick, thorough and helpful contribution. We all, together, need to continue to build the Internet and the Internet Society for everyone.
> Kathy Brown
>

-- 
Klaus Birkenbihl
Treasurer and Board member
Internet Society German Chapter e.V. (ISOC.DE)
c/o ict-Media GmbH
http://www.isoc.de/

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