- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:54:38 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 11:02 AM 7/28/1999 -0500, Wendy A Chisholm wrote: > >what a pleasant surprise! check it out: >http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/filters/accessibility/ > >I haven't read all of the articles, but i'm impressed that it's a major >category on their navigation bar! Wendy, I checked out the site, and read some of the titles. One of the articles disturbed me rather much. "Disabling Web Barriers" had a subtitle that said "incresing use of dynamic content, multimedia advances could foil disabled users ability to surf the net." In the article it said that the considerations for access to the web applied to both physically and cognitively impaired folks. No where in the article did it even suggest that multi-media advances would enable surfing by increasing numbers of cognitively-disabled folks, but instead implied that progress would impede use by "the disabled". Not a "pleasant" surprise at all.... 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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