Owners of .museum domain websites may be interested in the
http://access.museophile.net/ website, dedicate to aid accessibility to
museum-related websites for disabled users. This website allows access to
selected museum-related websites using a text-only filter based on the
Betsie tool to aid the partially sighted and blind web users. The size,
color and font of text is selectable at the bottom of each page. In
particular, any museum with a .museum domain name can use this service. Just
use a link such as http://access.museophile.net/x.y.museum as a web address
where x and y are for a specific museum. Look under
http://access.museophile.net/index.museum for a directory of registered
museums, including links where websites exist.

Any museum with a .museum domain website is welcome to use this service by
adding a suitable link such as

<a href="http://access.museophile.net/x.y.museum">Text only</A>

It is recommended that such a link is put at the beginning of the home page
so that it is easily found by blind and partially sighted users.

If you are interested in web accessibility and are attending the MW2004
Museums and the Web conference, the following workshop may be of interest to
you:

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/abstracts/prg_250000727.html

In addition, the following recent article, available online, may also be of
interest:

Cultural Heritage Online. Ability, Issue 53, pages 12-14, January 2004.
http://www.abilitymagazine.org.uk/features/2004/01/A53_Cover_story.pdf

Please let me know if you decide to use the accessibility service by sending
the web address concerned. Comments are welcome.

--
Prof. Jonathan Bowen, Professor of Computing
Faculty of Business, Computing and Information Management
London South Bank University, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK
Email: [log in to unmask]  URL: http://myweb.lsbu.ac.uk/~bowenjp/
Museophile Limited: http://www.museophile.com/
Personal:
Email: [log in to unmask]    URL: http://www.jpbowen.com/

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