- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:35:54 -0700
- To: "Poehlman, David" <David.Poehlman@usmint.treas.gov>, "'Kynn Bartlett'" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, WAI ER group <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, WAI UA group <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
At 1:28 PM -0400 9/26/00, Poehlman, David wrote: >I explained this in the message. what I disagree with is that the text can >be small. some people have low enough vision that they need larger text but >not use assistives to achieve it. Aha, okay. So you are arguing that web designers have to account for people who need assistive technology, could benefit from assistive technology, may even have access to assistive technology (such as the screen magnifier in Windows), but who choose not to employ it? That's a very dangerous argument to propose, you realize... I argue that there are ways for those users who need larger text to get the larger text without requiring that web designers _remove_ their graphical text images. The implications of placing the burden on the web designer instead of on the user are that unreasonable expectations are asked of the designer, and she is unable to reasonably comply with those requirements. Thus, she ignores them. --Kynn -- -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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