- From: Ineke van der Maat <inekemaa@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 19:26:09 +0100
- To: "Eric Velleman" <E.Velleman@bartimeus.nl>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hello Eric, Thanks for your mail. You wrote: >Using the A, AA or AAA logo means more than just being accessible to >people with visual disabilities. It is also more accessible to everybody >else and to people with other disabilities. Of course I know what the logos really mean. But not most persons outside the accessibilityscene and these are still always more than in it. Writing such a text below the logo opens a door for much other (commercial) slogans. I even can write below it "accessible for people who can use the mouce with their left hand" or 'accessible for people who can use a keyboard" I think that this, just like misguiding advertisement must be forbidden. I never talk about accessibility is a business case, but always about accessibility must be as usual as bread. Simply because everybody has the right to visit a site to get the information/products she/he wants. The Canadian magazine Adbusters has a very nice action: "know the media, change the media, be the media." This is also very valid for the internet and an accessible site makes it certainly more true. Greetings Ineke
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