- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:31:43 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Why? Assuming pages are written using semantic markup, it doesn't matter > that authors don't write stylesheets. Real world authors don't write with semantic markup (in my view most real world authors really should not be using a semantic markup language[1]). The business model behind assistive technology is to allow employers to buy their way out of disability discrimination legislation penalties by allowing their visually impaired employees to access the internal and external web sites needed to do their job. To fit that market niche, the AT needs to work with real world web sites, which are basically presentational hacks. Lynx and a true screen readers works reasonably well on truly semantic sites, but there is no money in that. The difference between the leading AT products and screen readers is that the AT products take lots of hints from the DOM and MSAA hooks, in order to try and make some sense out of real world sites, whereas a screen reader will simply read what is on the screen of a text mode browser. [1] I can say a lot more on that!
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