- From: Leonard R. Kasday <kasday@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:32:06 -0500
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough), Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Good point william. Puts it into the user camp. Not knowing if you're getting full and correct information from a site can be as bad as getting incorrect information. Just like not knowing the reliability of a source telling you traffic is clear. Len At 10:25 AM 12/22/00 -0800, William Loughborough wrote: >At 10:04 AM 12/22/00 -0800, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >>just to make a web accessibility evaluator's job easier. > >It's because the "accessibility evaluator" is not a distinct person from >the "user". One aspect of using the Web is to be able to tell if a portion >thereof is going to be accessible. One could use a tool to determine this >if the testability information were included. > >It's a P2 simply because its absence makes "...difficult for people with >disabilities to access the web" in the above sense. One thing about the >Web (as distinct from particular Web chunks) that matters is being able to >determine if a site will work for your circumstances. This can only be >determined by an agent of yours if it's testable.. > >-- >Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE > -- 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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