[ai] Standards compliance and accessibility of Quia

[Adrian Higginbotham]

can't comment on what standards it might or might not meet buthaving had a
quick look at the "demo" from their website the interface is cleaner and
easier to get to grip with than either BlackBoard or webCT.
of course the real test is in the more demanding facilities such as the
assessment and discussion tools, digital drop boxes etc.

although as an experienced  screen reader user I found the site easy to
navigate I wonder if less net savi people would find the "drop-down list
approach as simple.

Adrian Higginbotham.

SURFACE  (Salford University, Research Focus on Accessible Environments).

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----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
To: Accessible Internet <ai@shu.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [ai] Standards compliance and accessibility of Quia


> Hi
>
> On Tue 05-Feb-2002 at 12:42:40AM +0000, Seb Schmoller wrote:
> >
> > I'd be interested to read people's reactions to this exchange
> > with http://www.quia.com/
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > From: Paul Mishkin <pmishkin@quiacorp.com>
> > Subject: Re: Standards compliance and accessibility of Quia
> >
> > Quia pays close attention to the W3C's accessibility standards.
>
> That could mean that they pay close attention and then decide that they
> don't like them and don't implement them...
>
> Perhaps you should ask, bluntly:
>
>   "Does the web interface generated by your product comply with WAI A,
>   Double-A or Triple-A?"
>
> And also since they no doubt have some kind of interface for generating
> web content does this interface comply with the [1] ATAG?
>
> I suspect that the answer will be that none of the guidelines are
> complied with...
>
> Chris
>
>
> [1] Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10/
>
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