- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:51:54 -0700
- To: Wayne Dick <wed@csulb.edu>
- CC: public-wai-eo-umtf@w3.org
Wayne Dick wrote: > Doyle and William – Work on some disability organization personas Gideon McMasters is the leading spokesman for an organization of blind computer users. He designs/hosts Web sites and participates in several online fora. He seeks better means of getting WCAG implemented throughout the Web and is in constant correspondence with organizations who fail to comply with the W3C recommendations. His natural tendency is to use the carrot instead of the stick but he needs to stay abreast of regulatory progress so that when necessary he can play his "It's the law!" card. ------------------------------------------------------ Janet Mortimer directs a national effort to make all new construction "visitable" by people in wheel chairs and almost incidentally must use the Web as her main medium of disseminating information. She is more activist than mere advocate so she stops buses without lifts from proceeding and generally tends to take prominent actions in her cause. Her goal is to use the Web as a means of reaching out for allies in her decades-long struggle but she finds that many of the tools suitable for that purpose present functional barriers for her Disability Rights Movement colleagues. Solidarity with those who cannot use the Web as easily as she does dictates that she be pro-active in demanding ATAG support from the vendors of authoring tools. She needs help in hastening tool compliance. ------------------- Love.
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