Philip Taylor (Webmaster) (17 sept. 2007 - 12:26) : > Right, so where are the "different parties" in your phrase > "the needs of implementers" ? The only parties I can find > there are implementors -- what about the needs of > > o consumers Are everyone else, Usually, products exist only because there are consumers. If consumers are not satisfied, the products die. > o designers designers are implementers and consumers. They consume some products. > o those with special accessibility needs These are consumers too. The ethics goal of caring for them is a noble goal, but is not very effective (unfortunately) in our society. The goal is more that there is really a need to make business with these users. Plus the fact it is easier to accommodate Web technologies to people with special needs than in the physical world. > and the vision/advice/expertise of > > o computer scientists > o human factors engineers > o psychologists > o linguists > > and so on. All of these are part of the product design (implementers). -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***Received on Monday, 17 September 2007 19:25:26 GMT
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