- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:11:30 -0700
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough), Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: WAI Guidelines List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 03:36 PM 9/29/00 -0700, William Loughborough wrote: >WE ARE NOT AGAINST MULTIMEDIA. > >MULTIMEDIA IS NOT THE ENEMY OF ACCESSIBILITY. > >Excuse me for shouting, but I'm tired of being bum-rapped on this issue. >Bad enough when it's journalists' sound bites but when people close to the >undertaking have (and spread) that misconception, it's frustrating. W3C had >a major part in developing SMIL, e.g. I could go on but... Sorry, William ... I've had time to read the list more closely than usual recently, and I think the term "eye candy" came to my eyes a bit too often! On man's "eye candy" is another man's necessity! And I know that you, personally, are part of the choir on this issue ... Seriously, what would be the issues if a multi-media vehicle, such as Flash, would not require a "text equivalent" ... I don't know about SMIL ... not sure I've ever seen a page I liked that used it ... 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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