- From: Roberto Castaldo <r.castaldo@iol.it>
- Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:58:12 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Hi everybody, As I already said some week ago, web accessibility is not only related to people with disabilities. At least, not only! Web accessibility should be referred to each web user; each web user ahould be able to use a web site, to find an information, to surf the web; every one, including people with disabilities! When I'm at home, I'm used to navigate using an ADSL connection, but when I travel, I often have to connect with the analogical modem in my notebook... So I have many problems I do not have with fast connections. And this happens to everyone who has an old computer, or an old modem, or an old line. That's a good example about everybody's disabilities, on technological disabilities... And this example can fit to each of us, to each web surfer, regardless of his eventual disability. In my opinion, all WCAG guidelines are designed to prevent frustration in all of us, as all of us can have some kind of disabilities (phisical, cognitive, technological, social, and so on) and such disabilities can came and go in a minute, in a day, in a life... The web is for everyone, and so WCAG are. My best regards, Roberto Castaldo ----------------------------------- www.Webaccessibile.Org coordinator IWA/HWG Member rcastaldo@webaccessibile.org r.castaldo@iol.it Cell 348 3700161 Icq 178709294 ----------------------------------- ________________________________ Da: w3c-wai-eo-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-eo-request@w3.org] Per conto di Alistair Garrison Inviato: domenica 14 dicembre 2003 18.55 A: EOWG Oggetto: Web Accessibility Definition... Dear All, Did we agree a definition for Web Accessibility... If we didn't the definition I am going to start to use is... "Web Accessibility is the process of making Web content in a way that can be used, without issue or consequence, by people with disabilities." This follows on from the definition of 'accessible' found in Glossary B of WCAG 1.0 (i.e. 'Content is accessible when it may be used by someone with a disability'), and the fact that several checkpoints in the Guidelines are designed to prevent , or in severe circumstances harm (i.e. flashing content).Web content causing people with certain disabilities frustration Anyway... I believe it's food for thought... Very Best Regards Alistair Alistair Garrison Director, Accessinmind Limited www.accessinmind.com <http://www.accessinmind.com> +44 (0) 207 252 2746
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