Bobby is a web-based public service offered by CAST. that analyzes web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities as well as their compatibility with various browsers. The analysis of accessibility is based on the working draft of the W3C's WAI Page Author guidelines with the Page Authoring Working Group's latest revisions. All pages on your web site must meet these requirements to display the Bobby Approved icon.
Technical Clarification - Bobby Verification dated 991015
Denny,
The checks in Bobby are based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines developed by the Web Access Initiative (http://www.w3.org/WAI/). If you put a notation somewhere on your page explaining
that there is code added by Geocities, it will be "functionally" accessible.
Hope this helps.
David M. Clark
Bobby Technical Support Coordinator
In July, 2003 we completed the process of verifying Lancasters Laughing Place being compliant with Bobby level one compliance and will continue our work to bring the entire site up to level three standards.
The image above the [D] is the Deaf Watch Gold Award, which looks like a Academy Award. We are pleased to have been presented this award on behalf of our honoree's - Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, and my grandmother Helen Dent Lancaster, who would be pleased.
The requirements for presentation of the Deaf Watch Gold Award. may be found in the link.
The following information is presented on James Gallagher's totally awesome web site.
"I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to A-Z to Deafblindness, And to thank you for visiting my modest and humble little Web Page. So come on in and make yourself at home, you will
be made very welcome."
"My name is James Gallagher and I am Deafblind myself. This site is here to try and offer some help to Blind, Deaf people, And especially
Deafblind people, and those who provide specialized services for those who are Deafblind. A-Z to Deafblindness is also here, to make people more aware about Deafblindness."
A framed web page is totally non accessible for blind and Deafblind net users. The image has text on it, and it says I don't want to be Framed, Support the Campaign to Recognize HTML, Frames as the Silly Things they Are. "Look at it this way," your visitor has a Braille reader and reads from left to right, now you who have perfect vision - close your eyes and read your framed web site from left to right. What do you "see?" Nothing but barriers to you and your visitor.
The tool will automatically create the LONGDESC text file for the author and put the correct link in the LONGDESC specification. Authors even have the option to add hard coded LONGDESC information to their documents using a D-Link (look for option in check accessibility options menu). The modified page can be viewed by the WHAT program and saved to the authors local hard disk. The new more accessible copy can then be transferred to replace the original file
Why butterflys adorn our home page. Uncle Leslie was a retired first mate with Waterman Steam Ship Corporation, whose home was on Fowl River, Alabama. He suffered from dementia, which was confirmed at autopsy as Alzheimer disease. When we were tidying up his home for sale, hundreds of containers of water had to be removed. Many of these water "jugs" were marked "for butterflys." We can only imagine why Uncle Leslie saved rain water for butterflys. God bless those who are caregivers for an Alzheimer friend or relative.
The Trace Research and Development Center. is part of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison. The Center focuses on making off-the-shelf technologies and systems more usable for everyone. Trace's work is in great part funded through the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), which is part of the U.S. Department of Education. Trace is a partner in the RERC on Universal Telecommunications Access, along with Gallaudet University. and the World Institute on Disability (WID).. Trace is also designated as the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Information Technology Access. These two RERCs are part of a network of fifteen NIDRR funded centers throughout the country, each with a different area of focus.
The top animated gif reads accessibility for everybody commitment. The animation says a CL (community leader) who is committed. The animated gif below the top one is developed for ordinary citizens of Geocities who truly want every visitor to learn something of value from their web site creations. The animation says a citizen who cares. All of us at Geocities truly care about those among us who are disabled and this is our way of making a commitment to change our web sites so that every one will be able to see what we have created.
On August 15, 1999 we were reviewing web sites for one of our awards. After visiting a particular site we followed a link, found an exceptional web site creation, and left a notation in their guest book. During the day we received a mail indicating that the web site creator had visited our web site and asked whether we aware of a questionable notation in our guest book. After a panic attack, we viewed our book and did not find the notation. We were sent the URL and upon inspection saw the pictures and forwarded information to the book creator to have the entry removed, which was not in our book, but was in another guest book on their server.
Before logging off for the day, we decided that we wanted the kind lady to have our True Believer Award. We went to her web site to copy the URL into the subject line of a mail we had composed with our award attached. At the very instant we were at her web site, our audible indicated that we had an e-mail. The e-mail was an award from the site we were at that moment visiting. Call this a coincidence, an omen, or just chance, but be assured that we were shaken to the point of tears. We added a note to the mail we had composed and logged off.
We have recorded this event as a personal record. Hopefully our children will not think that their dad has flipped out, but an encounter with an Angel is a serious matter. The award we received is shown below.
Another Strange but true event.
I had a slack day at work and wrote a few poems, one of which was for Trisha. I had made an attempt to tell her how much she has meant to me and what a difference in my life she has made, but this
morning my thoughts became a little clearer. For those of you who do not know, Trisha is the first person Lady Archer had asked me to help. I had only been a Spirit Faerie for a month and quite
frankly was frightened that I would not be able to help. Over the course of the next few months as I became more involved, truly wanted to write cheers but felt completely inadequate and turned to
Trisha for suggestions, followed her cheers as they were posted with regularity to TSF shouts, got nothing but encouragement and really tried to write. The more I wrote the better I felt about myself
and finally, finally, I not only saw but honestly felt what "spirit" really meant. To this day I regularly visit TSF shouts, cheer those who have posted a cheer, find that most have never received a
cheer for their cheer and I am saddened. Because if Trisha had not cheered one of my cheers in all probability I would not be continuing to write cheers today.
So when I got home about one pm I sent Trisha the poem which is at the bottom of this post. Barely had I sent the poem and her beautiful poem for us was sent by PJ to our onelist. Now I know that
men are not supposed to cry, but cry I did and cry I am doing now. What is scary is what if Lady Archer had not remembered a mail which I sent her almost two years ago. What if Lady Archer had not
encouraged me to join TSF, just after tax season when I was most receptive. What if Trisha had not needed help with her spirit page and Lady Archer asked me to help. What if Trisha had not encouraged
me.
You see the chance of these events being random occurrences is nil. Does not take a math genius to figure to odds of all these events converging and making such an impact and difference in my life
for the better.
So the next time any of us feel the touch of a velvet wing on our web sites, hear the beauty of a cheerful song which comes from a Shadow Walker or another heart, or smiles at the mischief of the
Wee Ones or those errant Spirit Faeries, know full well that the spirit is seeking your participation and will give you a guiding hand. None of us need walk along or carry too heavy a burden, we all
have the comfort of the spirit.
A table is used to organize the content of this page which has three columns. The left hand column contains under contents, the links for sections of this page and others on our Talking Hands Award section. After going to the section and at the end and down a line or two is an up which will return you to the contents section.
The second of middle column is a narrative which we have written.
The right hand column contains pictures of two of our honorees.
True teaching involves a learning experience for everyone, no matter what their ability or disABILITY. For an award presenter or a web site author to insist upon the use of a resolution other then 480 x 640 or small fonts, effectively slams the door shut on those of us who have poor eye sight.
Not to use white as the default background and black as the font color, ignores color blindness or the fact that the background image may not load, thereby slowing down the reading of teaching material.
Please do not ignore our less fortunate than ourselves and our elderly. All of us would certainly enjoy your web site creations in years to come if you would only try and make your web site "Bobby" compliant.
This tune is not typical of Carolan's style, but is attributed to him in William Forde's Encyclopedia of Melody. According to Charles O'Connor's diary in October 1726 his two younger brothers were being taught the harp by a woman named Maire Dhall (Blind Mary). It is likely she was well known to Carolan, who wrote the tune for her.
D'Ranger and D'Mayor developed a multi colored ribbon to honor the advocacy of all types of cancer for the winner of TSF wide ribbon hunt in October, 2002.
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