The Institute for End User Computing, Inc., a 501(c)(3) Not-For-Profit Corporation, Forging the Future for End Users Like You!Our web hosting provider recently deployed a series of major changes to its servers that necessistated a complete overhaul of our back end infrastructure that co-incided with new releases of several third party subsystems that we employ along with some equally major design changes on our part in our ongoing efforts to improve our site's accessibility and useability. So, please bear with us while we debug our markup, style sheets, and code in this new production environment.
Moreoever, since we are now in the thick of Academic Conference Season with JCDL 2008 and Hypertext 2008 kicking off in Pittsburgh, PA this week, it may be some time before all of our old archives and writings are re-integrated into our live site.
In the meantime, all of us at The Institute thank you for your patience and understanding!
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You see, we try very hard to comply with all applicable legal regulations and at present the law is unsettled with respect to charities raising funds online. There is one school of thought that argues "if a site has a 'Donate Now' button on all of its web pages, each individual web page is a charitable solicitation in its own right, requiring the prominent display of registration notices whose language is mandated by state law." Since this argument might turn out to have the force of law, we are going to play it safe and include the language for all of the states in which we are registered until such time as the states agree upon a more user friendly alternative form of notification, like a simple link to a single page of legalese.
Since we have to go this far, we are also including some useful and related information (about our Copyrights & Trademarks, our Tax Status, and Web Accessibility) that isn't required by law, just to keep everything law related in one place. In any case, this footer is the same on every page so you don't need to scroll down to it again.
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We make extensive use of Javascript to enhance our pages for the majority of our visitors who don't have any disabilities that would limit their motor control of a mouse or detract from their appreciation of a tight dynamically responsive animated display that selectively hides and reveals page elements to reduce the need for mouse click driven inter-page navigation.
These enhancements are applied in an unobtrusive manner that leaves our pages fully accessible if Javascript is turned off.
However, some Assistive Technologies provide some level of native Javascript support that doesn't interact well with modern Javascript usage, so as to hide page elements without providing any accessible means of revealing them. As web authors, there is no way for us to account for all possible bugs, variations, and permutations in the implementation of web standards under the full range of browsers, screen readers, input devices that our visitors might be using.
To address these concerns, we have added Assistive Technology and Print Preview Modes that can be used individually or in combination to disable dynamic intra-page navigation effects, simultaneously reveal all page elements, and swap in a black-and-white style sheet.
We feel that given today's technology, this is a best available way to balance the needs of our all of our visitors.
While we go to great pains to adhere to Web Standards, the sad truth is that they are exceedingly complicated interlocking specifications that are, in places, ambiguous — making it virtually impossible to create a flawless implementation of them and truly impossible to create style sheets based upon them that will work for every user of every browser. If you care about reading our pages and find that your current browser is mutilating them, you should try a different browser.