RE: Sv: Question from Last Week's WCAG Teleconference

there is standard for forms, HTML 4.0
cookies are a de-facto standard
 
Neither of these is perfect, but both exist.  A single interface in
compliance with WCAG 1.0 also relies on HTML 4.0, and is also not perfect.
 
My point is that a site developer should be allowed to choose to build
several optimized interfaces rather than a single interface, and that the
first, if done well, can be MORE accessible than the second. 

-----Original Message-----
From: love26@gorge.net [mailto:love26@gorge.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:59 PM
To: Cynthia Shelly; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Subject: RE: Sv: Question from Last Week's WCAG Teleconference


At 12:02 PM 10/26/00 -0700, Cynthia Shelly wrote:


use a form to gather user preferences 

I guess that's a big part of what I mean by pie-in-sky. Forms are a major
stumbling block for someone like me and I suspect that I'm not too unusual
in that respect. Maybe some day XForms will do something useful but
meanwhile things like the "wallets" or Opera's personal data file, etc. are
just public relations nonsense. If there's no standard, there's no way. I've
typed my name and address about 3,576,347 times and once should have been
enough. I shouldn't have to be asked in an emergency room if I'm allergic to
penicillin or have adverse reactions to any medications. But I am asked and
by a highly trained nurse who takes the information with pen/paper! As to
what my "preferences" are, why would I know? I can't tell unless I already
know too much. 

The fact that the technology for this is almost trivial doesn't change the
fact that it does not exist in practice. We'll see. Meanwhile we need to get
out guidelines.

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Love.
                ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE