- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:59:00 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: Authoring Tools Guidelines List <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
aloha, kynn!
Kynn observed:
quote
You forgot one of the best ways to check this -- asking someone with
a disability to try to use the site! All the automatic checks in the
world won't tell you anything if a blind user can't navigate or a
deaf user can't access content!
unquote
right on, kynn! don't know how i forgot THAT one -- guess i should ask someone
with a disability to check my outgoing email from now on!
as for the sentence which begins with the odious "Obviously", i repropose it,
thus:
Such repair strategies are unlikely to be initiated if the author must then
make any appropriate corrections by hand or in response to prompts
and alerts _without_ guidance from the tool itself.
Note: the underscores surrounding the word "without" indicates suggested use of
"font-style: italic;"
gregory.
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I'm a teleological existential agnostic. I
believe that there is an intelligence that
governs the universe--with the exception of
certain parts of New Jersey.
-- Woody Allen
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Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
Camera Obscura http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus
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Received on Monday, 29 November 1999 23:51:49 UTC