Some of you may be wondering why this page has never been updated. Well, here is the explanation: The CSU system has instituted something called "ATI" or "Accessible Technologies Initiative." This means all web pages are supposed to conform with the American's with Disabilities Act standards. This is a noble goal but the technologies to easily achieve it are still profoundly lacking. I've spent the last several months trying to learn at least the basic XHTML and CSS programming required to make a web page truly accessible. It is not easy.
I discovered that Dreamweaver MX 2004, the web page development tool I use (provided essentially free by the CSU) cannot handle the necessary programming code. Therefore, I need the latest version of Dreamweaver. While CSULB provides Dreamweaver 8 as a part of the standard suite of software on student lab computers, it refuses to provide it to faculty. Essentially, if I want it either I buy it (at several hundred dollars) or have my Department buy it. Both are patently absurd requirements and continue to demonstrate CSULB's cavalier disregard for its institutional responsibility to faculty technology support. So, no updating, probably ever again. So it goes.
Jan. 20, 2008
