In 2008, we are renewing our commitment to provide you wwith quality and useful information to make it easier for you to provide accessible information technology for everyone including those of us who have disabilities recognizing that accessible IT opens the world to us as never before.
With all the hype about Web 2.0, social networks YouTube and much more many of us are forgetting and overlooking the basics. Even now, the major accessibility issue on the Web is images without text labels. Yes, we like to stay near the cutting edge and we'll pay attention to many of these exciting, new technologies, but we are renewing our commitment to revisiting the basics and finding ways to make it simpler for people to achieve basic accessibility with the minimum of effort and with minimal technical know-how. We will make more use of short documents and brief multimedia presentations.
We also want to keep our pulse on significant trends related to accessible information technology. For example, two of the areas that are showing a peaking of activity that hold promise to enhance access to information are a group of activities in enhanced access to electronic texts and new tools creating historic breakthroughs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. Both of these trends will move from limited, exotic research into widespread, general availability in 2008.
Watch for announcements, in the next month, about 2 new, special programs starting in January 2008!