Acknowledgments

Accessibility is an immensely rich and complex topic, and we’ve had lots of help from lots of generous and talented people who’ve been willing to share their knowledge, their time, their energy, and their passion for making the Web a better place for all of us.

One of those people is Jim Caldwell, whom John met in a windowless office somewhere in what is now the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in about 1985. Jim showed him something called PC-SAID and suggested calling someone named Jim Thatcher to find out more. Jim Thatcher moved to Austin a couple of years ago and has become a good friend, sharing his enormous knowledge of the Section 508 federal standards and his understanding of how his ...

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