Communications Infrastructure
Skip Crane
Accessibility Forum Staff
- Requirements for Forum Communications
Maintain and distribute current information
- Events
- Status of efforts
- … on a broad basis
- … for both public and private use
Major components of the Infrastructure
- Web-site
- E-mail exploders
- Collaboration tools
Web-site
- Web-site has been fully operational since 2Q01
- “What’s New” feature--single place to show updates
- Monthly e-mail summarizing web-site updates
- Single point of contact for additions, deletions, corrections, and accessibility issues
E-mail Exploders
- Broad-based e-mail messages (e.g., balloting, monthly web-site update)
- Focused subgroup communications (e.g., Project Teams)
- Some limitations
- Issues and some past problems
- Contact forumstaff@aticorp.org if you want to
- post to an exploder
- be added or deleted
- create a new exploder
Collaboration Tools
- Forum work requires coordination
- Accessible telecommunications--still a challenge
- Document development, storage, and control
- Project work requires sharing information
- Private working papers
- Public progress reports and approved documents
- Selection of collaboration tools not complete
Summary
- Communication Infrastructure designed to maximize your efforts and keep you
informed
- Web-site is the primary interface for Accessibility Forum information (http://www.accessibilityforum.org)
- E-mail exploders for interactive Forum communications
- Collaboration tools for document management, tool selection underway
- Fully accessible telecommunications still a challenge
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