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

This is quite good. I very much like the introduction of the notion that
"...when websites and web tools are not accessible, they exclude people
from using the web." 

It removes the tricky concept of disability and frames the question in the
more appropriate reference of inclusive / exclusive rather than ability /
disability.    

Original Message:
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From: Shawn Henry shawn@w3.org
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:30:31 -0500
To: ecrire@catherine-roy.net, w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
Subject: Phrase with "from using the web" - Re: w3.beta Comments for
discussion


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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