Re: Phrase with "from using the web" - Re: w3.beta Comments for discussion

Although I'm skeptical about how readers will take "disable people" (I
visualize a machete coming out of the monitor and severing the users hands),
the addition of "from using the Web" is weird on my ears. I don't believe
I've ever seen "disable *from*" - "prevented from" I have seen/heard, but
not the former. I don't know why but it just sounds weird.

Love.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote:

> catherine wrote:
>
>> Finally, I reiterate that, for the content at the aforementionned URL,
>> second paragraph, last sentence, it is preferable to convey that
>> innaccessible ressources exclude people (and not "disable people"). I really
>> do feel that it puts a negative spin on the state of disability that is
>> unnecessary in this context.
>>
>
> Hi Catherine,
>
> Several EOWG participants like the phrase as it is at the end of this
> paragraph:
> "The web is a flexible medium that enables most people with impairments to
> use the web just as well as anyone. Think about what this means: There is
> inherently no such thing as a disability using the web. ...However: When
> websites and web tools are not accessible, they disable people from using
> the web."
>
> With the addition of "from using the web" does this still bother you? Can
> you say more about it to help us understand your perspective?
>
> (Note that that paragraph is likely to be rewritten -- but it still helps
> us to know your perspective so the rewrite can take it into account.)
>
> Thanks,
> ~Shawn
>
>


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