- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:03:47 -0500
- To: "Marti" <marti47@MEDIAONE.NET>
- Cc: "Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines Mailing List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Marti, I like your suggestion for development of specialized browsers to let a user dial in how they view/hear/feel/smell the web. Perhaps starting with a speech browser, add features to allow the user to pinpoint a unit as small as a word, to pronounce, the allow the user to turn off or on how the content is presented. If, as an example, the browser permits "turn off text", the only responsibility of the page author is to provide an alternative to text. Graphics use less bandwidth than audio/video. Ideally, such a browser could include a translator to convert text to various popular symbolic languages including sign languages for the deaf. I suspect that an efficient written language translater will exist before a translater for symbolic languages can happen. 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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