- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:49:53 -0500 (EST)
- To: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- cc: <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
(Flippant summary: Trust me - I've seen this work in the real world with real developers doing real work on real software...) The real explanation: I spend a fair bit of time talking to developers of sites, and of web software. Quite often I find that they do not actually know how people with disabilities use the Web, and it is very helpful to be able to give them an idea. This note is short, sweet, and to the point. Other things I use are the videos on the OzEWAI CD, excerpts from the WAI video, demonstrations on my own laptop (turn off the screen, get it to read out what is happening, and try to navigate the web...), or getting someone who has a particular disability to demonstrate thow they go about using the Web. It makes a handy reference for documents like the Accessibility Features of... series of Notes, so that developers who are left scratching their heads at how a person with a disability could use their system at all can get an idea. cheers Charles McCN On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, William Loughborough wrote: At 05:40 PM 1/5/01 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >The times I have referred to it, that is what I have needed from it If you were even remotely typical of the expected audience, I would agree. The only times I will ever refer to it will be to work on it. In fact I find it hard to believe that you "needed" much that would be found herein <g>. The reasons for harping on bizcase/policy/curbcut are sub-textual and to some extent subliminal. The reasons for embedding failures is to lend some reality, particularly for PWDs who know full well that none of this stuff works anywhere near as well as painted. -- Love. ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI Location: I-cubed, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia until 6 January 2001 at: W3C INRIA, 2004 Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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