- From: Marti <marti47@MEDIAONE.NET>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 05:16:23 -0400
- To: <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, "GL - WAI Guidelines WG (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Perhaps one thing that makes this so difficult is that we are 'missing' a piece of assistive technology. In the physical world ramps and doorways are designed to be used by wheelchairs (not the people in them). On the web we consider how screen readers, braille displays etc will be able to interpret the page, we do not try ro make pages directly accessible. Trying to make pages directly accessible for CD is sort of like insisting that all pages be 'self voicing'. If screen reading/translating software were available for CD then we could define reqirements that support its functions. How 'far-fetched' is such a program? Could we make some assumptions about how it would work if it existed and define requirements on that basis? Even better, can some of us with the 'connections' try and get someone interested in trying to develop such a program? This sounds like something the NSF should be investing in. Marti
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