[Irl-dean] draft document: centre for excellence

[Gerry Ellis]

Hi, Barry,

You put what I meant much better than I did and this is now included in the submission. We realise that Design for all covers much more than technology, but this is our area of particular interest.

Gerry Ellis
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry McMullin" <mcmullin at eeng.dcu.ie>
To: "Irl-dean (E-mail)" <irl-dean at list.eeng.dcu.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Irl-dean] draft document: centre for excellence


> 
> 
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Hugh O'Neill wrote:
> 
> > Here is the draft document on our recommendations for the
> > Centre for Excellence based on all the contributions we have
> > had on the issue on the mailing list and at the seminar.
> 
> Hi Hugh -
> 
> Looks like a very good and useful synthesis to me.
> 
> Minor comments:
> 
>   "Science Federation of Ireland" should be "Science Foundation
>   Ireland".
> 
>   "The increase in WAI AA rated website in the public service,
>   with a target of 50% AA accessible by 2010." Not sure where
>   this target came from; but if it was from me, then what I meant
>   to advocate was 100% (of the public sector) by 2010 (at the
>   very latest).  That's already a pretty long term objective, so
>   I would be very reluctant to see Irl-dean seem to advocate
>   anything less.
> 
>   I'm not sure what an "Accessible house" would be; but it
>   implicitly brings in the built environment, which would
>   presumably be in-scope for the proposed Centre, but is out of
>   scope for Irl-dean (I think...).
> 
>   We should consistently either hyphenate "design-for-all" or not
>   hyphenate it - but not have a mix of both.
> 
> Finally, I think I might add an extra sentence or two of
> "positive re-inforcement" to the Introduction.  Say between the
> first and second paragraph, something like:
> 
>   Irl-Dean strongly welcomes the planned establishment of a
>   national Centre for Excellence in Universal Design.  We see
>   this as a very significant opportunity to establish national
>   awareness, and ultimately international leadership, in this
>   critically important area of design. While recognising the
>   broad scope of Universal Design, because of the particular
>   remit of the Irl-Dean network this particular submission is
>   focussed specifically on the application of Universal Design to
>   information and communications technologies.
> 
> Best - and thanks to Hugh for moving this on!
> 
> - Barry.
> 
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