- From: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:09:27 -0400 (EDT)
- To: WAI-GL <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> > What is the complete list of "user agents" in widespread deployment that > > cannot understand that kind of rudimentary JavaScript? How many people use > > those? > > What does it matter ? Baseline capabilities have improved considerably since the publication of WCAG 1.0 in 1999, that's why. WCAG 1.0 authors were anti-everything, really: Anti-images, anti-tables, anti-JavaScript, anti-multimedia. Let's get over that, shall we? > But each visitor has a different physical reality. Yours is different > from mine - for which I am ever so grateful Nice. Say that to my face sometime and see how I respond. > Accessibility involves making as few assumptions about the physical > realities of others as possible: We're talking not about bodies but about user agents. > The exact version of a browser is of no particular interest. Its capabilities are directly relevant to the publication of accessibility guidelines. > > Where is the evidence that anyone other than a few privacy freaks and > > Slashdot-reading Linux nerds turn JavaScript off? How many of them are > > disabled? > > Frankly I find this offensive. Is this what you teach people who come > to you for advice and knowledge about accessibility ? Care to answer my question first? Indeed, will anybody actually answer the questions, or are you going to have another fun day bitching about my tone? -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>
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