- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:08:33 -0500
- To: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Cc: "EOWG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Hi Shawn, > Good point. One could also argue that accessibility features are > missing from HTML 4 and other fundamental web technologies, thus > the need for WAI-ARIA. The confusion arises in theory versus actual practice. > So "The web is fundamentally designed to be > available to all people..." is not true in one sense, the technical > details. However, I wonder if we can comfortably say it in general, as > that certainly is Tim's principle. Yes, it was Tim's initial principle. And it remains his and many of our goals. Some lay people don't know the difference between "the web" and "HTML"...or for that matter "the web" and "Internet Explorer". One idea that may help is to define "The web". Or link to a definition [1]. If that term was clarified it couldn't be convoluted to mean "HTML5" or something else. [1] http://www.w3.org/2003/glossary/keyword/All/?keywords=world+wide+web Best Regards, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson
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