- From: Waddell, Cynthia <cynthia.waddell@ci.sj.ca.us>
- Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:21:19 -0700
- To: "'MMuehe@CI.Cambridge.MA.US'" <MMuehe@CI.Cambridge.MA.US>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
It certainly makes our job more difficult with the sloppy reporting. I hope this is not a misinformation campaign to discredit web accessibility efforts and divide the tech community. Cynthia D. Waddell --------------------------------------------------- Cynthia D. Waddell ADA Coordinator City Manager Department City of San Jose, CA USA 801 North First Street, Room 460 San Jose, CA 95110-1704 (408)277-4034 (408)971-0134 TTY (408)277-3885 FAX -----Original Message----- From: MMuehe@CI.Cambridge.MA.US [mailto:MMuehe@CI.Cambridge.MA.US] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 3:15 PM To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Wired story about 508 Compliance From the Wired story, this gem of patronization and twisted language: "Of course, I believe that handicapped people should have full access to the Web," said Oz Lubling, a technologist at Web design and consulting firm Razorfish. "But technology and new computer languages, like XML, are emerging so quickly now that a more useful approach would be to work with and adapt the new technology to enable the users, rather than restrict the old technology, which seems disabling," he said. Check out Oz's cutting-edge web site (I guess alt tags just aren't cutting edge enough). http://www.Razorfish.com/ > >http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19556.html > > Another example of sloppy reporting on this issue, especially > when they quote ignorant web developers -- who obviously haven't > been to http://aware.hwg.org/ -- who say that making a site > accessible will "double" the time necessary to make a web > site. > ========================== Michael Muehe Executive Director / ADA Coordinator Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities 51 Inman Street, second floor Cambridge, MA 02139 USA 617-349-6297 voice 617-492-0235 TTY 617-349-4766 fax www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CCPD "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -- Helen Keller
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