UPFRONT - "The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of
disability is an essential aspect." Tim Berners-Lee, Director of W3C, the World Wide Web
Consortium: http://www.w3.org/WAI/

To design for accessibility is a complex process and we are learning as we move forward.
Educational organizations, government agencies, non-profits, and businesses around the
world are taking accessibility guidelines into consideration as they revise their Web sites and
create new ones that will allow everyone to access their content. In this month's FOCUS
article, Carolyn Kotlas, Information Resources Consultant, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill discusses the process that their Center for Instructional Technology is working
through to assure accessibility. In the ACCESSIBILITY section of DESIEN, GWSolutions
describes its model for e-accessibility and in TECH/TOOLs DePaul University announces its
new computer-generated synthetic American Sign Language interpreter. These are only a few
examples of what is happening globally in the area of accessibility. It is difficult to express the
value that is emerging from this movement, but I think it is well-expressed in ENDNOTE.
(Rosemary Lehman)