- From: Graham Oliver <graham_oliver@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 03:36:44 +0100 (BST)
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I agree Jonathan Its about accessibility of content, right? My hunch on this one is that this issue hinges around some questions that are difficult to address and so tend to get pushed to one side. I would like to take the risk and float a few here. *Segmentation of Target Audience* Does a sites content work for People with Dyslexia People with Other Learning Disabilities People with Cognitive Disabilities People with Head Injuries People who are pre-lingually deaf People who don't normally use the language of the site Children People that don't fall into the above groups Of course there are many different ways of segmenting the target audience. *Exclusion of one or more Target Audiences* If a sites content is not designed for everyone, and lets face it that probably includes just about every site on the planet, who is being excluded? I accept that it is easier to not address this question and just exclude by ommission rather than commission, but isn't that exactly the kind of issue that we are trying *not* to do with the accessibility message? *Do we know how to prepare content for the different target audiences?* I don't think so, its a highly specialised field I imagine. *Are we prepared to face up to the fact that if we do attempt to include more people in presenting our information then this will involve 'modified presentation' and not simply 'plain language' and thus probably / possibly more cost?* This is the question that I believe arises if we are honest about the requirement to serve different groups of people. I know that Kynn has touched on this in the past. If we do face up to the issues and don't ignore them then we may get some interesting and exciting solutions! Cheers Graham Oliver --- Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com> wrote: > Today the Times Educational Supplement carried an > article from the US > entitled "School pays blind boy to stay away" > > It states that: > 6,000,000 students nationwide(11 percent of six to > 17-year-olds in state(aka > public) schools) are in special education > programmes, and in New York city > alone,special education consumes a quarter of the > city's school budget. > > I realise this is out of context, however we can be > fairly certain that > other countries have a similar problem and may not > have similar resources. > > We need to ensure that the wai message is understood > by all, not just the > most able. > > > jonathan chetwynd > IT teacher (LD) > j.chetwynd@btinternet.com > http://www.signbrowser.org.uk > ===== 'Making on-line information accessible' Phone: 025-919-724 ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
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