- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:22:07 -0400 (EDT)
- To: jonathan chetwynd <jay@peepo.com>
- cc: Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, w3c <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Jonathan, currently the way we do our site is for the staff to include keeping it up to date and workable as part of their workload. That seems to have problems already in how much we can do. Actually WAI is reviewing its site, but the forum is the education and outreach group. If you have time to provide input there as well as gl it would be appreciated, otherwise those of us on both groups will try to ensure that the best thinking we have in GL is put into practise on our own site. cheers Charles On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, jonathan chetwynd wrote: I am not currently privy to decisions as to the method of communication determined by w3c for their site. However if you have tried flash3 it has an excellent interactive tutorial. It is not impossible to provide text alternatives, however difficult. SimCity as I remember, about 25 years ago was available as a text game. Today it is used by city planners, the text version is not abandoned, just less accessible to the majority. The gl site does use < > and ^ someone decided these icons were acceptable. Prefferred learning method is a user centred term referring to different peoples chosen method of studying. Some like command line structure, others prefer gui. By only admitting one method wai is not accommodating a large part of the community. It happens that non-readers are near one extreme. It is evident that if this is to be actioned, much of the site would be effected, including ig, gl and eo. jay@peepo.com Please send us links to your favourite websites. Our site www.peepo.com is a drive thru. When you see a link of interest, click on it. Move the mouse to slow down. It is a graphical aid to browsing the www. We value your comments. --Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +1 617 258 0992 http://www.w3.org/People/Charles W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI MIT/LCS - 545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139, USA
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