Re: Tutorials (was Paving Cowpaths)

At 10:14 AM 5/24/2007, Laura Carlson wrote:

>Another persona link:
>
>Scenarios of People with Disabilities Using the Web
>http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/#usage
>
>Laura
>--
>Laura L. Carlson
>Information Technology Systems and Services
>University of Minnesota Duluth
>Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009
>http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/

The page you've referenced was very successful in the early days of 
our accessibility efforts in New York State.  It showed people why 
doing things in an accessible way mattered, and after that, it was 
just a matter of developing resources to show them how.

Similarly, I think that a large factor in the successful adoption of 
HTML 5 is not going to be technology-related.   It's going to be 
developing a public relations campaign, just as was needed to get 
accessibility off the ground.

The HTML 5 tutorials will not only need to explain any new features 
-- and explain old features NOT carried forward and why -- but will 
need to convince the developers that switching will give them some 
tangible advantage.

Debi Orton / oradnio@gmail.com  

Received on Friday, 25 May 2007 17:03:29 UTC