- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:07:25 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 11:55 AM 7/22/1999 -0400, Bruce Bailey wrote: >Anne -- >I would be glad to share the site, but I can't (don't have permission / >don't have the technical ability) since it is currently on a private >intranet. I, too, would have no idea how to get on an intranet, unless I had access to a box on it ... >The site does precious little for the truly cognitively impaired. The site >is pretty, but that is really for everybody (especially the non-technical >bureaucrats that are funding the project). All parts of Checkpoint 14 are >addressed nicely, but the site remain totally inaccessible to a non-reader. I agree that meeting checkpoint 14 would not meet the needs of a non-reader, tho it may, or may not, meet needs of cognitively impaired folks with some reading skills. Based on my development of "strategies" so far, I'd suggest that an all-graphic version of a page would not meet the needs of the cognitively impaired folks with some-to-average reading skills - a page which combines graphics and text would. I suspect the site was developed for the cognitively impaired folks who need auditory input either with or without visual stimuli (graphics, animation and/or text). An all-text version that doesn't work in speech while giving you a view of the original page isn't going to work for some of the cognitively disabled, tho it will work for some others. >Really what the author is trying to do is to twist the WCAG against itself >by playing one disability group (the learning impaired) against another >(the blind) [sigh] -- all without really doing anything in particular for >the first group! [heavier sigh] Not trying to do; he's doing it! And he's pointed out what needs to be "Fixed" in the guidelines very nicely... The guidelines don't give him much to go on to build a page accessible to the widest number of disabled folks including specifically cognitively disabled folks. That work is still ahead. Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/apembert apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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