Accessibility of U.S. federal government home pages: Section 508 compliance and site accessibility statements     

Abiodun Olalere  Jonathan LazarAuthor vitae 《Government Information Quarterly》2011,28(3):303-309

U.S. federal websites are required to be accessible for people with impairments. However, despite the existing regulations and guidelines, many federal websites continue to be inaccessible, and accessibility policy statements available on federal websites often do not provide any useful information. This paper provides three contributions to the research literature: (1) an accessibility evaluation of 100 federal home pages using both human and automated methods, (2) a content analysis of existing website accessibility policy statements, and (3) a discussion of the relationship between actual Section 508 compliance and the existing accessibility policy statements on a website. The paper concludes with recommendations for improving policy related to Section 508 compliance for websites.  相似文献   

Policy rhetoric and the renovation of English schooling: the case of Creative Partnerships     

Frank Coffield 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(6):715-716

My critical evaluation of the government's White Paper, Learning to Succeed: a new framework for post-16 learning, which was published in the Journal of Educational Policy (2000, 15(2), 237-246) has provoked a critique by Pat Ainley, which is the main purpose of this section of the journal on Documents and Debates. He claims that my article suffers from two sins of omission: first, I am apparently unaware that the new legislation excludes higher education; and second, I have apparently failed to see that the Learning and Skills Council may become a new Leviathan rather than a new enlightenment. Both criticisms are, in my opinion, wide of the mark for the reasons given below, and this response ends with some comments on Pat Ainley's contribution.  相似文献   

Measured lives: the rise of assessment as the engine of change in English schools     

Mary James 《Curriculum Journal》2013,24(3):343-364

The year 2000 marks the end of compulsory education for the first cohort of students to experience the National Curriculum throughout their school careers. This article describes their experience of assessment and compares it with the testing regime that those children who start school in 2000 are likely to experience. Changes in policy from the early Task Group on Assessment and Testing proposals are analysed, especially the increasing priority given to the use of assessment for monitoring and evaluating the performance of teachers, schools and local education authorities. This shift is interpreted in terms of underlying assumptions about effective strategies for change. While Conservative and Labour governments have pursued somewhat different goals, they have used a similar change strategy. This explains why the general thrust of policy has continued in a broadly similar direction - towards ever more testing in schools and the use of results as performance indicators. It is argued, however, that this strategy cannot be pursued indefinitely. After a point, further improvements will only be made if teachers are helped to work ‘smarter’, not just harder. Policy-makers need, therefore, to look again at the contribution that formative assessment - or assessment for learning as part of pedagogy - can make to lifelong learning, in a more coherent, balanced and ‘educational’ system.  相似文献   

城市再就业小额信贷政策可持续发展困境及对策分析     

冯希莹 《未来与发展》2010,(7):32-35

额信贷政策作为再就业工程的新思路无论在理论界还是在实践中均得到认可，但在中国城市却还没实现可持续发展的目标，即扶贫效应没表现出连续性。本论文描述了阻碍其可持续发展的直观表现与原因，并进一步阐述了促进城市小额信贷扶贫可持续发展的建议：按经营实力分类建立多层次的服务体系；对商业银行进行财政贴息建立补偿机制；齐抓共管解决还款难题建立专项资金滚动模式；打破二线运作模式建立第三方组织；确保项目成功建立责任机制。  相似文献   

城镇失业人员致贫因素实证研究——以西安地区为例   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

常丽娟  任超 《科学．经济．社会》2010,28(4):9-15

改革开放30年间,在经济的高速增长和开发式扶贫政策的共同作用下,中国取得了举世瞩目的大规模减贫成就,为全球的反贫困事业做出了重要贡献。然而,随着中国经济转型及国有企业改制,城镇贫困问题依然是一个我们不容忽视的社会问题。本文以城镇失业人员为研究对象,通过问卷调查的方法,运用SPSS统计分析软件对造成其贫困的因素进行了分析,并依据数据处理结论结合现实社会存在的特殊现象提出针对性的政策建议。  相似文献   

华盛顿会议期间英国对华政策的新走向     

赵增强  陈娅宁 《历史教学(高校版)》2002,(9):5-10

在华盛顿会议上，英国在不妨碍其根本利益的条件下，支持中国收回部分权利，如促使中日解决山东问题，在租借地等问题上的让步，表明英国对华政策的新变化，即通过《四国条约》替代英日同盟，利用美国制衡日本，来维护自己在华的利益。  相似文献   

美国犹太游说集团对国会及美国中东政策的影响     

郝斋田 《首都师范大学学报(社会科学版)》2006,(2):30-35

美国长期以来执行亲以色列政策,美国犹太人对此发挥了重要作用。本文论述美国犹太游说集团的内在资源及其对国会和美国中东政策的影响,从一个侧面展示出美国亲以色列政策形成的原因。  相似文献   

"积极的财政政策"与促进经济持续增长的关系     

宋涛 《闽江学院学报》2003,24(1):69-72

“积极的财政政策”提出和实施有特殊的历史背景,是我国应对国际、国内严峻经济形势的一项及时重大取措,它的实质是以发行国家建设债券。用增加一部分财政赤字的办法来进行政府直接投资、带动其他投资、刺激消费、增加投资需求和消费需求,是以扩大内需为主的经济发展路子。辅以实施的是适度放宽的“稳健的货币政策”。人民收入增加,国内投资、消资市场旺盛。在未来的经济建设中应坚持这项重大决策。  相似文献   

重点大学高考招生民族倾斜政策与边疆社会稳定之研究     

李倩 《湖北招生考试》2007,(4)

中国的重点大学拥有国家的主流文化意识和政治价值走向,且具有一流的学术水平和强大的师资队伍。因此,重点大学高考招生向边疆民族地区倾斜,对边疆民族地区的社会稳定和发展具有深远的政治战略意义,应引起我国教育部门的高度关注与重视。  相似文献   

我国财政政策设计中的问题研究     

熊毅 《绥化学院学报》2006,26(6):1-3

本文研究了我国的财政政策设计中的一些问题。主要表现在:一,由于未将满足经济发展和经济稳定的政府支出分开,结果造成财政政策力度难以衡量;二,由于政策目标定为经济增长,结果造成政策未能有效的通过经济目标的实现,推动社会总目标的实现;三,由于政策目标设定不合理,结果造成政策效应持续性差,经济增长对政策产生强烈的依赖性。  相似文献