- From: giorgio brajnik <brajnik@uniud.it>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:40:59 +0100
- To: Vivienne CONWAY <v.conway@ecu.edu.au>
- CC: "sharper@cs.man.ac.uk" <sharper@cs.man.ac.uk>, Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>, Yeliz Yesilada <yyeliz@metu.edu.tr>, Peter Thiessen <thiessenp@gmail.com>, Simon Harper <simon.harper@manchester.ac.uk>, RDWG <public-wai-rd@w3.org>
I really don't know where to stand, but I'm throwing my bits anyway and now, as Josh nicely put it, will see the brickbats fly :-) . I think one part of the solution is in better clarifying what really does "people with disability" mean? do that include elderly? or people that are temporarily impaired? If we take the WHO def <quote> Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. An impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations. Thus disability is a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives. [http://www.who.int/topics/disabilities/en/] </quote> then I think that Simon's initial comment on the narrowness of the meaning of "pwd" is not fully justified. However I'm not sure that this is the intended meaning by the vast majority of the people that would read the cfp. Giorgio
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