Re: And today's ironic bit of HTML is...

sorry, show him what it sounds like on the phone with and without alt
tags.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Mason" <w3c@accessibleinter.net>
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: And today's ironic bit of HTML is...



At 04:53 PM 07/04/2002, Tina Marie Holmboe wrote:
>   How does the rest of you feel about the current status: are we
moving
>   towards a more accessible web, or are people - not to put too fine a
point
>   on it - not giving crap ?

Judging by my experiences when I've raised accessibility issues with
site
owners, a lot of people still don't give a crap.

Just last week I had the webmaster in charge of this site argue with me
that including ALT tags on this page was "dated" thinking and not
necessary:

http://www.capta.org/

And that was after I showed him what the page looked like in Lynx.

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
w3c@accessibleinter.net
http://www.accessibleinter.net/