- From: tom mcCain <tmccain@thomas.butler.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:22:54 -0500 (EST)
- To: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- cc: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
It's people, not machines.
>On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, William Loughborough wrote:
>Have we been (are being?) blind (pun intended) to this because it might
>account for a large area of the biggest problem - the Web design
>attitude that holds appearance to transcend in importance the "content"?
Macintoshes are not responsible for inaccessible web design any more than
PageMaker is responsible for poorly-designed publications. It's all about
educating web authors, regardless of their tools, and that means we need
guidelines that are clear and understandable.
The new guidelines _are_ an improvement, thank you, WAI. Keep at it.
And I won't jump onto my 25-year-old soapbox about graphic designers who
fall in love with their design at the expense of the information they are
supposed to deliver.
- tom
tom mcCain, Butler University, Indianapolis USA
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