- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:58:31 -0700
- To: "w3c-wai-au@w3.org" <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
I find no "quinks" in Jan's post and feel that it represents a welcome step back from what was formerly a rather "defensive" or at least "too conciliatory" attitude expression. The only "improvement" might be to urge a prompt if an offending document is attempted to be saved without these matters being attended to. "Images are the most common inaccessible elements on the web" is possibly a bit "buried" and it might serve as the TITLE of this whole balloon in order to emphasize why we are so keen on forcing this issue. By attaching major significance to this issue at this time we can continue to hammer away at it with subsequent guidelines. Many of the items we will subsequently address will be more difficult to explain as well as being more easily addressed by user agents, but this one will for the forseeable future be the dividing point for our clients and the (usually retinally chauvinistic) authors. It will be something like we are saying "surely your customers will want to help out in this obviously important area - as only they can." The most popular "help the blind" volunteer activity is using one's eyes to perform functions unavailable to people without eyesight like reading or describing pictures. The authoring tool vendor can be made to understand that they are providing this opportunity to their user base. -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE http://dicomp.pair.com
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