- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 21:32:51 -0400
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Kynn, Hope you enjoyed your vacation. I can see you did a lot of thinking. There are many good ideas that could be suggested to developers of browsers so that a browser can be created to be used by those with the most text-limited cognitive disabilities. But, in addressing this extreme end of those in this category, you have neglected the very real and very easily-do-able recommendation for web designers to illustrate their pages/sites because many with disabilities in cognition, language, etc., need them. Your solutions still heavily depend on text which is the problem. It is much easier for everyone involved if web designers put some attention to illustrating their sites, at least enough to allow effective navigation of sites. The person designing the web is in a much better position to know, locate, and connect what will illustrate the actual theme/main idea of the page, than to set up some limited data base of icons that won't likely be available to those who depend on tv web reception anyway ... Incidently, providing support for tv web delivery (no choice of browser, no speech) would be providing support for an "assistive technology" which is used by folks I know with a CD. Not all of them, just as all visually impaired folks don't use old comuters. Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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