- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:38:27 -0800
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough), Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 12:41 PM -0800 11/18/00, William Loughborough wrote: >I guess I meant to imply that the overwhelming majority of people >who *write* for the Web are in a Wysiwyg frame of mind and the "s" >in there has dominated most of their lives. Just as you describe how >you make a page without starting from a notion of its structure but >just let it evolve. We may (almost) all do that. We are taught to >outline first but we just can't bring ourselves to do it. It's important to keep in mind that this is a relatively legitimate way for someone to do their job as a web designer, and no matter what the small minority of people here say, we're not likely to change this method. From a strategy standpoint, it's important that we not base our crusade on tearing down this method of design which has widespread support throughout the entire industry -- but rather to assume that it will continue for the foreseeable future, and figure out how to work with and around it. WAI can't kill WYSIWYG. Even if it sucks, that -- and visual design in general -- will remain with us for a very long time. Instead we need to tell people who are using that method how they can meet the challenge of greater accessibility. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/
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