- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:31:00 -0800
- To: "w3c-wai-au@w3.org" <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
From a recent ig post: "Please, avoid to send messages in HTML. Thank you Paolo" This might alert us to what the future may (probably *will*) hold for the globality of the WWW (nee internet). What we include in "authoring tools" must account for the probability that even email will be generated in something like XML before we go much farther. When HTML email is as easy (think "unlimited" bandwidth) as current straight text postings, it is likely that the "network is the computer" prediction will mean our communications will include not just the quaint "ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT..." signature but also letterheads, logos, streaming whatever and therefore: the guidelines must stay not only terse, but abstract (not HTML-specific); the checkpoints must be heavily slanted towards usability by our friends/clients; the techniques should be able to grow exponentially with the possibilities provided by the technology. Sorry about that Paolo, but sending messages in HTML can only be avoided *very* briefly and what we need to do is forget about proscribing and get smart with prescribing. -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE http://dicomp.pair.com
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