webwatch-l Washington Post editorial: Claims Against Common

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From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
Subject: Re: webwatch-l Washington Post editoral: Claims Against Common
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Lila,

 Like it or not, as a webmaster of several small pieces of the WWW, I have
also gotten the same impression that Visually Impaired/Blind folks feel
they are the pigs among the equals (Animal Farm etal) based on posts
received from my subscription to webwatch-l.

 This, despite the useful posts I've received from Al Gilman on the needs
of the mentally disabled folks who are barely, if yet, able to use the
technology at all.... Those who whine about the loss of "time" when they
are online, should consider the fact that those who depend on graphics and
"aesthetics" and "formatting" and "tables" are only now able to access the
web. How ironic that some are complaining about the very things that bring
new groups of disabled online.....

    Anne





At 01:01 PM 11/17/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>Does anyone know how to reach Mr. Raspberry?  This article is absurd!  And,
>I resent the fact that many readers of the Post will now have the false
>impression that this request is unreasonable and would make web page
>developers "go back to text based presentation.".
>Lila Laux
>
>
>
Anne L. Pemberton
http://www.erols.com/stevepem
Curator, Academy One on Virginia's PEN
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Anthology/Pav/Academy1
Associate, Technology Plus
http://www.erols.com/technology.plus
apembert@crosslink.net

Received on Wednesday, 18 November 1998 06:04:43 UTC