- From: Lisa Seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il>
- Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:31:27 +0200
- To: "'WAI \(E-mail\)'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
If you are making a site for a small group of people, say for your class or, for your family to view cute picks of the kids birthday party, and they all have win2000 and are without serious impairments, then by all means, ignore some guidelines. The guidelines are primarily for authors of sites that are intended to be viewed by people whom they do not know, who may have issues that you have not thought about. I can understand if the jazz site are less concerned about deaf people, and I can understand if a site for an exclusively rich state (if there is such a thing) ignores poor folks. But that has nothing to do with us. Lisa >> 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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