- From: Access Systems <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 21:47:58 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- cc: "Audrey J. Gorman" <agorman@megsinet.net>, W3c-Wai-Ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> Presumably OCR works on a TIFF document to an accuracy of up to 99.95% - this
>
> The real questions are two - should they be commended for their approach to
> providing a more accessible option, and could they easily do even better?
>
> Providing a ramp to cover access to two out of three steps is enough for a
> wheelchair to be lifted by a couple of large friends over the final one, so
> it does increase acces, in the sense that some poeple who were completely
I think I see the problem, building a ramp over 2 of 3 steps is adding
insult to injury...it is worse than no access at all.
> excluded are no longer completely excluded. The analogy is that not everyone
sure, exclusion is exclusion, having to have someone lift someone in a
wheelchair is the same as a visually impaired person requiring someone
else to read their monitor to them.
Bob
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