- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:25:34 -0500
- To: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>, charles@w3.org, jay@peepo.com, phoenixl@netcom.com
- Cc: nir@nirdagan.com, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
At 01:48 PM 1/23/2000 -0800, Scott Luebking wrote: >As one blind person pointed out, there's no reason why the sighted friend >couldn't use the web pages designed for blind users. Scott, A sighted person could use web pages designed for blind user only to the same extent that blind persons can use web pages designed for "average" users. Blind persons *can* use web pages loaded with graphics and missing alt tags as long as there is some text or sound. Likewise, sighted users *can* use web pages without graphics and visual formatting. But neither user is well served. The blind users can't access the information in the graphics, and the sighted users can't access graphics that aren't there. I suspect that the blind person who made this statement is mis-informed on the prevelence of sighted users who depend on the visual elements as surely as blind users depend on their speech synthesizers. A blind user without speech equipment would find an all-text presentation as useless as a cognitively impaired person would. 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
Received on Wednesday, 26 January 2000 09:17:57 UTC