Accessible collaborative documents

Despite the pooh-poohing of the format, I am still backing the idea of a universal accessible web policy for developers. But lets take a step back and take care of the format issue first. I chose to publish this in a Word Doc, because everybody I know uses word to edit and write content (including those with screen readers). It also has some features for tracking changes, which we have already used on this document within my office.

So lets hear some constructive ideas on what format we should all be working in, as I am going to try and drag more people into this. I looked into Wikis a little bit, but it didn’t seem like a great fit for this project. Using and XML or HTML document seems like it might exclude people who don’t work with those formats.

Go.

Lets create an open source web accessibility policy

Recently I’ve come accross a problem. Managers are often unable to convey what the accessibility requirments are for a product to their developers, outside of “it needs to be accessible.” I’ve been working on a document that serves as both our accessibility policy and as guidelines for us and the developers and contractors who work on our sites. Now I would like to release the first version of this document to anybody who would like to read it, and encourge anybody to make suggestions and changes [that are clearly marked] and send it back to me and I will look at intergrating the changes.

So Download the document and then email me back the document at ici.webmaster@gmail.com with your revisions. No guarantees that your change will make it in everytime, but if we all are working together, I think we can ceate a pretty useful document.