- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 18:17:33 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
- Cc: jacobs@w3.org, kynn@idyllmtn.com, asgilman@iamdigex.net
Ian, Kynn, Al Thanks for all the detail on the 2.0 philosophy but I'm still not sure I understand the essentials. Would you indulge the following lapse into math-ese. Consider the set of all user groups U1, U2, U3... with different sets of abilities and disabilities. and the guidelines UA and GL for user agents and web content. 1. Is the goal of WAI to produce UA and GL guidelines such that if both are followed in their entirety, than each user groups U1, U2, U3... will have available maxium feasible access to all web sites? Here "maxium feasible" means the maxium that can be obtained with current knowledge and technology? 2. And is it completely acceptable to fulfill this goal by providing each of the user groups U1, U2, U3,.... with different versions of the site S1, S2, S3... ? If at all possible, please answer with one of the following - "yes" - "no" - "what _are_ you talking about Lenny?" <grin/> or offer rephrasings of a sentence or two (with or without math-ese) to which you can say "yes". Len p.s. Also, if this is the philosophy, I don't understand where Kynn's "minimally accessible" fallback fits in. -- Leonard R. Kasday, Ph.D. Institute on Disabilities/UAP and Dept. of Electrical Engineering at Temple University (215) 204-2247 (voice) (800) 750-7428 (TTY) http://astro.temple.edu/~kasday mailto:kasday@acm.org Chair, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Evaluation and Repair Tools Group http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ The WAVE web page accessibility evaluation assistant: http://www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave/
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