Here is a news brief about AOL getting on board with the ADA requirements.
If you want to find out if your course web page is ADA compatible,
please call our local expert - Maureen Coulson at the Arbor:
754-2115; macoulson@ucdavis.edu
>>AOL TO ACCOMODATE BLIND WEB SURFERS
>>CNET, July 27, 2000
>>Entire article: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-2358978.html
>>Excerpt: BOSTON--To millions of Web surfers, America Online is an
>>easy-to-use guide to the sometimes overwhelming Internet, but to the blind,
>>AOL has been little more than a source of frustration. An agreement
>>announced yesterday aims to change that. The National Federation of the
>>Blind agreed to drop a lawsuit accusing AOL of violating the federal
>>Americans with Disabilities Act. In return, AOL will make its software
>>compatible with programs the blind use to convert digital information to
>>speech or Braille. The pact could open the Internet to thousands of blind
>>people who have been too intimidated--or exasperated---to use it, according
>>to Curtis Chong, the federation's director of technology Under the
>>agreement, coincidentally reached on the law's 10th anniversary, AOL will:
>>* Adopt a companywide policy with guidelines for making AOL accessible to
>>the blind and other people with disabilities. * Make the next version of
>>its software accessible to the blind. AOL 6.0 is scheduled for release this
>>fall. * Ensure that other future AOL products are accessible to the blind.
>>The blind navigate the Internet with programs that read or describe text as
>>a cursor hits it. But such programs currently can't read AOL's pages.
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