RE: My Action Item: Multiple interface guideline

At 04:09 PM 10/16/00 -0700, m. may wrote:
>a much better-designed system could be built

"Could" could leave the people behind who are already behind enough. If 
this sort of effort actually had much chance of happening it would be 
wonderful but it is most often pie-in-the-sky. We know that the only way 
any of this will actually get done is for there to be a sincere effort to 
address the issue of real usability/accessibility but the efforts to date 
have caused many of us to behave in fairly knee-jerk terms when some 
proposal about what "could" be done is used to eventually do nothing.

I don't doubt that Ray Kurzweil thinks blindness will be "cured" along with 
spinal cord severance and that many people think there's better ways to 
supply competitively accessible information stuff to PWDs but the context 
suggests that these prospects are often cruel hoaxes left on the planning 
table as the *real* sites get priority.

I sure hope I'm wrong about all this.

--
Love.
                 ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE

Received on Monday, 16 October 2000 20:46:29 UTC