- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:51:19 -0500
- To: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>
- Cc: Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines Mailing List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
aloha, scott! you are still, in my opinion, attempting to impose a many-sizes-fits-all policy on content delivery -- an approach which is doomed for you cannot possibly predict (nor can you reasonably expect content providers to know) what the individual blind user needs in order to make sense of, and interact with, the content being delivered... yes, the server should assume half of the burden (which can be done via responsible browser sniffing, so that the stylesheet and inline style declarations delivered with the content, for example, won't crash the requesting UA nor cause the content to be rendered in unexpected and incomprehensible ways), but the client side should handle the quote blind tailorization unquote -- particularly if the requester is using an AT that can access his or her user agent of choice's DOM... and even if the blind individual requesting the content isn't using a user agent that has implemented the DOM, or is incapable of supporting it, then an intermediary proxy, of the sort that len kasday and i have been talking about in WAI circles since 1997, could do the client side work for a client that doesn't have the resources or access to the DOM needed by the UA slash A.T. combination described in my scenario... of course, the proxy would have to be heuristic, and constantly updated, so as to take into account new scenarios and combinations, but gregory. -------------------------------------------------------- He that lives on Hope, dies farting -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1763 -------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net> WebMaster and Minister of Propaganda, VICUG NYC <http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html> --------------------------------------------------------
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