ADVISORY/Improving Internet Access for the Disabled.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2000 TOPIC: A set of guidelines was released by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ), to help make Internet access See how to access the Internet. more easily available to the blind and hearing impaired, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. .com recently reported. The organization approved the &uot;Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (ATAG ATAG Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines ATAG Air Transport Action Group ATAG Automatic Tag ),&uot; which provides key advice for Web site authors on how to make their sites more accessible. Last November, a major Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. was reportedly sued for failing to provide access for blind users through its software. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Patricia L. McCabe is an attorney specializing in disability law. 818-907-9726 PLMCCABE@AOL.com Professor Martin B.H. Weiss of the University of Pittsburgh can comment on public policy settlements for Internet service providers and telecommunications policy. 412-624-9430 412-624-4141 Brady Johnson is an attorney specializing in Internet law and civil rights litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . 206-548-9050 brj@fremontlaw.com ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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