- From: Frederick J. Barnett <fred@eatel.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:08:51 -0500
- To: WAI AU Guidelines <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
On stardate 14 Sep 2000, William Loughborough sent a subspace communication stating:
> At 11:43 AM 9/14/00 -0400, Fred Barnett wrote [in a vote for chats vs.
> telecons]:
> >No more telephone noise or other problems.
>
> WL: I fear this is a little naive. Chat rooms are quite "noisy" in some
> non-audio sense and as to "other problems" - the grass may seem greener on the
> other side, but if previous experiences with the "medium" of chat rooms is any
> indication, they are pretty high on the "worthless, frustrating" list - at least
> for a certain old geezer. Of course if this is a decidedly minority view the
> effort will be made and I'll do my best to take part, but I'd rather depend on
> sending email back and forth! There's probably some idealized video conferencing
> hookup with full VR accompaniment, but for the moment...
>
Well I host our monthly HWG Town Hall meetings on our IRC server, I used
to host a weekly astronomy chat on Delphi, and have participated in some other
IRC chats in the past. So I'm not as "naive" as you think. Chat room "noise"
can be a problem in a general interest chat, but in a room for a specific
purpose, like this would be, noise would extremely low, if non-existant. And as
Charles pointed out, a deaf person, or one with speech problems would be better
able to participate.
Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/
E-mail: fred@eatel.net
Member: HWG Governing Board & Secretary
http://www.hwg.org/
Received on Monday, 18 September 2000 12:08:32 UTC