Re: w3.beta Comments for discussion ("The web radically changes the nature of disability")

Shawn Henry wrote:
>> The web radically changes the nature of disability - it removes 
>> barriers to communication and interaction. However, badly written web 
>> pages or technologies re-introduce these barriers.

I'm not convinced of this. The barriers in Web content can be even more 
insurmountable than those in the physical world. However, they are 
perhaps easier to avoid or to correct. I would say that "The Web has the 
potential to radically change the nature of disability as it is easier 
to avoid creating barriers to some kinds of communication and 
interaction. However a Web of badly written content can be just as (or 
more) inaccessible as the real world."




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Received on Thursday, 27 August 2009 06:42:50 UTC