[ai] Standards compliance and accessibility of Quia

[Seb Schmoller]

Colleagues,

I'd be interested to read people's reactions to this exchange
with http://www.quia.com/

Seb Schmoller

-------- Original Message --------
From: Paul Mishkin <pmishkin@quiacorp.com>
Subject: Re: Standards compliance and accessibility of Quia
To: Seb Schmoller <seb.schmoller@sheffcol.ac.uk>
CC: jo.tomalin@sheffcol.ac.uk

Dear Seb,

Quia pays close attention to the W3C's accessibility standards. 
We also supplement the W3C standards with internally developed
standards
relating to the presentation of educational materials (such as
not relying exclusively on color to indicate whether a response
is correct or incorrect).  I believe you'll find Quia's level of
compliance to be higher than other Web-based educational services
you have evaluated.

Paul Mishkin


Seb Schmoller wrote:
> 
> Dear Paul,
> 
> We are investigating using Quia.
> 
> We have demanding (and correct!) policies on avoiding tools which
> do not produce standards compliant web-content (e.g. which
> complies with the W3C's Website Accessibility standards).
> 
> How does Quia fare on this score?  (My assumption is that with
> the US legislative framewrok this is something you'll have sorted
> policy out on.)
> 
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
> 
> Seb Schmoller
> 
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