- From: Lisa Seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:24:53 +0200
- To: "'Kynn Bartlett'" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, "WAI \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Yes there are morons out there.
Morons are not reasonable.
I think it is well known that a high percentage of people who built these
complex computers in the first place have learning disabilities.
It is also well known that many of the geniuses though the generations have
impairments, both physical and cognitive, and it is not reasonable to think
that Hawkins or Einstein or Edison or ....incapable of understanding a web
site.
The only point may be, that the average moron thinks that he is reasonable.
(I may be forgiven for not using the "she" default? :) )So although
"reasonable" may hold up in a court of law, it will not help promote the
implementing the guidelines.
Yours
Lisa Seeman BEng (Hons) ASSI...and incapable of spelling her middle name
without checking her passport first.
-----Original Message-----
The average person using the Internet would say:
A computer is a complex thing. Using the web is almost too
hard for me, and I'm not cognitively impaired! Clearly, the
web is not designed for use by people with cognitive
deficiencies, and thus there should be no general requirement
that sites should be made accessible to those people. If
there is a need for sites for them, then someone should make
specialized web sites for them, but I still don't see how
someone with cognitive impairments would be able to understand
the complex concepts of "web sites", "email", "URLs", and
other web stuff. I can barely understand them myself!
--
Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/
Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/
Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/
AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/
What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
Received on Tuesday, 24 October 2000 02:48:51 UTC