- From: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:52:15 -0800
- To: Sharron Rush <srush@knowbility.org>
- Cc: "EOWG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Hi Again, I forgot one point. Web accessibility and and screen magnification are disjoing technologies. I think we should stop using screen magnifiers as an example of assistive technology that require accessibility. Actually screen readers do not provide accessibility support, they provide inaccessibility enabling. WAI literature is filled with the notion that screen magnifiers have something to do with accessibility. They don't. Screen magnifiers are no different than good strong pair of reading glasses, like my 6x pair. You can read with them, but it difficult and uncomfortable. Magnification is better than nothing, but it's not even OK. The book you read with prescription reading glasses is still inaccessible media. We are EO on a new project. We don't need to attack magnification as a tool, but we don't need to promote it. Wayne
Received on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:52:57 UTC