John Slatin was a leading light in the field of web accessibility, which is a passion of mine and my area of work. He co-authored Maximum Accessibility – a book on web accessibility – was co-chair of the WCAG Working Group for a time and led accessibility research at the University of Texas at Austin. Sadly, John passed away in March after a three-year battle with leukaemia.
I never met John, but along with many other accessibility experts, I’m taking part in the John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project to help raise money for John’s wife, Anna, to honour John and to promote his cause; accessibility.
The project aims to raise money to help his family with the medical expenses incurred during John’s illness. Volunteer accessibility experts are matched to companies that want to have their web site checked over for accessibility issues. In return for a brief accessibility audit, the web site owners contribute a minimum of $500 to the John Slatin Fund.
More than 70 accessibility experts have volunteered their time to the project; now we’re looking for companies to take part too. If you work for or know of a company that would be interested in taking part, please point the appropriate people to the project information for companies or contact me directly.
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