- From: Gareth Hay <gazhay@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:46:46 +0100
- To: "Philip Taylor (Webmaster)" <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 4 May 2007, at 16:05, Philip Taylor (Webmaster) wrote: [...] > > At 60 years of age, my vision is not what it once was. > I am, in comparison to my younger peers, "partially sighted". > So if you were to re-cast your text (above) as "Blind and > partially sighted people", "THEM" would become "US", and > those who dismiss accessibility as only marginally relevant > might suddenly come to realise that what is accessible to > them today may become inaccessible tomorrow. So let's agree > (if we can) to do away with this "THEM"/"US" divide, and > agree that accessibility is important to EVERYONE. Please ? > > Philip Taylor > Well I myself and dependant on one eye, which currently does not impair my usage of the web (save for some things like image stereograms), and I am well aware should anything happen to my "good" eye, I would indeed be partially sighted. Accessibility has become a /lot/ more important to me in recent years for this very reason. Gareth
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