- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:52:39 -0800
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough)
- Cc: "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>, Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 12:03 PM 11/2/2000 , William Loughborough wrote: >WL: Now we're back on track. Now if you think you have the one true message from on high about the best way to do that, go ahead on. I don't think that I have the "one true way" to do it. That's why I am not spending a lot of time attacking _other_ techniques. I am not mandating "you must do it this way" but instead trying to figure out what the core requirements are, and trying to get people to separate their "this is the best way to do it" opinions from true requirements that affect accessibility. (For example, I have no problem with the idea of styled text being a useful technique -- my opposition has been to _mandating_ that as the only solution.) Saying "we need structured markup" as a requirement is confusing the requirement -- access to information -- with one way of doing that. It's like saying that we don't need signs in Braille on doors, we just need to write our signs in XML. --Kynn -- 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/
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