[Accessibility_sig] Project in Memory of John Slatin

[Sharron Rush]

As many of you know, John Slatin passed away last week, and in 
celebration of how his life has touched so many of us in the 
accessibility arena a project is being launched that will both honor 
his memory and assist his family with significant expenses that 
remain from his long illness.  There is a new project designed to help.

The basic idea is this.

1)      We get accessibility experts to volunteer a few hours of time 
to perform a brief accessibility review of a company or organization 
web site.

2)      We get companies to sign up.  They will contribute a minimum 
of US$500 to "The John Slatin Fund".

3)      The expert and the company are paired and the review takes 
place, spreading the word on accessibility.

This review will not be comprehensive but serve to provide an 
organization with enough information so that they can understand what 
the strengths and weaknesses of their site are and what course of 
action is recommended.  Some site owners may need a more rigorous 
audit in order to completely understand all accessibility issues, but 
such an audit is out of the scope of a review that takes 3-4 
hours.  This is intended as an introduction to accessibility for the 
site owner who is interested in learning about this important 
topic.  Accessibility experts will need to conduct a short review, 
using combinations of tests to provide a document with an overview of 
accessibility to the site for users with various disabilities.

We are looking for companies to sign up for a brief review AND we 
need people with accessibility expertise who are willing to donate a 
few hours of their time to sign up as reviewers, which you can do at

<http://www.knowbility.org/business/john-slatin/volunteer.php>http://www.knowbility.org/business/john-slatin/volunteer.php. 


In addition, we ask that everyone help spread the word about this 
project to help us get companies interested in an accessibility 
review to sign up and to donate to The John Slatin Fund.  If you have 
a blog, please blog this project.  A short description:

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The John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project matches accessibility 
experts with companies that would like a brief review of their site 
for accessibility. In return, the site owner is asked to contribute a 
minimum of $500 to The John Slatin Fund. The John Slatin Fund was 
established to help John's beloved Anna offset the medical expenses 
incurred during John's long illness. The goal of this project is to 
raise $25,000 for that purpose. Learn about the project and sign up 
at 
<http://www.knowbility.org/business/john-slatin>http://www.knowbility.org/business/john-slatin

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This is a project developed and managed by friends of John. All 
proceeds go directly to John's family.  Please join us in honoring 
John and helping his family.

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