- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gv@trace.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:47:51 -0600
- To: "'Jonathan Chetwynd'" <jay@peepo.com>, "'Jason White'" <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, "'Web Content Accessibility Guidelines'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi Jonathan, If you are asking " Is the WAI looking at how pages can be made more accessible to children in general?" Then I think the answer would be that that is out of scope. Our charge is limited to looking at issues that cause accessibility problems for people with disabilities (of all ages) but not problems that have to do with children in general, or different languages, or mobile computer users etc. That having been said, there are many of our recommendations that would make it easier for children or people using different languages or mobile computer users to access the web. We like to point those out wherever possible because they add additional incentive for technologies that "Transform Gracefully". But we don't have efforts or guidelines targeted specifically at solving problems that are not related to accessibility. I believe that would be called mission creep and would be outside of our charter in WAI. Let me know if I misread you message. Gregg -- ------------------------------ Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. Professor - Human Factors Dept of Ind. Engr. - U of Wis. Director - Trace R & D Center Gv@trace.wisc.edu, http://trace.wisc.edu/ FAX 608/262-8848 For a list of our listserves send "lists" to listproc@trace.wisc.edu -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Chetwynd Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 3:02 AM To: Jason White; Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Subject: Children: was Re: A "one size fits all" personalized web page? In replying privately to a query, it came to my attention that whilst cognitive disability occupies me professionally, having a three year old daughter also is a concern. Surely we must recognise that children require significantly different material? What efforts is wai making to meets this need? As it is likely that currently these pages would need to be in a separate area, does this not answer the "one size fits all" personalized web page? query? jay@peepo.com Jonathan Chetwynd Special needs teacher / web accessibility consultant education and outreach working group member, web accessibility initiative, W3C
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