retrofit doc

My creeping senility moved into a gallop as I tried to join the 
conference this morning instead of tomorrow!

I have looked at the "retrofitting" document and its basis is still a 
bit muddled for me. Perhaps a bit about the difference between 
"outfitting" (the creation of Webstuff) and "retrofitting" (which is 
about how to repair an inaccessible site?)

Although this will clearly come up a lot, I'm not sure that much can be 
all that different. It's not like we are doing what in the automobile 
maintenance/repair industry is called "detailing" in which small flaws 
are remedied - or if we are then I think the approach needs study and 
clarification.

Are we actually deciding whether to simply scrap the offending entity 
and replace it with an accessible version? If not that, then is there 
any discernable method for "retrofitting", and should it come from an 
organization whose basic premise is that accessibility must be an 
integral part of the original construction and "retrofitting" is sort of 
like putting lipstick on a pig?

What would help would be if at least the outline  of the introduction 
became an instance of an exemplification of "short description of the 
content and scope of the document" instead of merely its label. I think 
what I mean is that without the actual *scope* itself, rather than the 
word "scope", I still don't know what this document intends to address.

Love.

Received on Thursday, 16 June 2005 14:55:03 UTC