- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:54:51 -0800
- To: Lynn Alford <Lynn.Alford@jcu.edu.au>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 07:53 AM 2/23/2000 , Lynn Alford wrote: >We are trying at James Cook University to develop a very accessible web >site. The target clients are those who may have cognitive problems after >an accident. I haven't looked at your pages -- and in truth, I don't feel qualified to comment on accessibility for cognitive disabilities (yet) because the field is (currently) rather unexplored -- but I would like to thank you for the way you phrased your question. We use "accessible" and "inaccessible" as shorthand all the time, but in truth, accessibility as a concept depends on having a _subject_ (or is it an object?) of the sort "accessible _to_ ***." Our goal is to make the content accessible _to_ everyone from an idealistic standpoint; accessible _to_ "as many people as we possibly can, given our own limitations" from a practical standpoint. It's very good that you've identified who your audience is, because that helps us to better gauge the effects of your design practices upon your target audience. -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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