- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:25:20 -0700
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: seeman@netvision.net.il, "WAI (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 01:31 PM 10/19/00 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >(Note that we are essentially determining how far back we need to provide >support, assuming that newer systems are going to be better). > >Charles McCN Charlie, I suggest that depends on the audience anticipated in creating the site. When I work on the site for Dinwiddie Schools, Southside Elementary Schools, I feel minimal need to reach out to a greater audience than Dinwiddie County students' families and their extended families. From conversations with parents, I don't see that we need to support any technology lower than Win3.1 ... but if I make a site to be used by students all over the state of Virginia, I need to remember that some schools may only have access via an Apple IIe ... even tho the official word from the state on state-wide sites is support at Win95 level ... I know the teachers around Virginia from years of working with them at conferences ... But Virginia is a small part of the US ... when I work on the ESF site, I remember that there are folks from other English-speaking countries who use the site whose technology may be back at 286 or Apple IIc level .. I don't know if you can "legislate" addressing an identified audience, unless your audience is "the public" ... which comes under a higher standard .. Perhaps this should be a distinction between a Priority A and an AA level .. or level AA and AAA even ... 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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