- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:38:26 -0400
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>, "Poehlman, David" <David.Poehlman@usmint.treas.gov>, "'Kynn Bartlett'" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, 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>
There is another issue here, the issue of branding, i.e. creating a distinctive, memorable look that a person associates with a particular brand. I understand the importance of branding. I'd really like to hear from graphical designers if there are cases where branding requires non-standard fonts... instead of e.g. using a few small images for logos, bullets, and other decorations.. or even having a large image... and relying on text with a coordinated font and background color for the rest of the page. Len At 10:35 AM 9/26/00 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >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/ -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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