- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 08:26:22 -0700
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: humanity@atlas.co.uk, <seth@robustai.net>, sean@mysterylights.com, <aswartz@upclink.com>, oedipus@hicom.net
At 06:38 AM 4/4/01 -0400, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>http://users.erols.com/stevepem/guidelines/whitehouse.html
Right on.
Just as WAI has spawned a new industry of "accessibilizing" the Web you've
created a huge demand for designers to provide the now-doubled effort to
make all this stuff *truly* accessible. And the key is to have a checkpoint
saying something like "provide appropriate illustrative adjuncts to all
content" - which of course includes icons/earcons/illustrations.
I am not being sarcastic when I say that what you propose here is likely to
be what many of us will be doing for some time to come. Anyone herein who
has done any of the proposed illustrational decisions/implementations/tests
knows that until there are widely accepted icons (like the "speaker" to
indicate a sound resource - does it have a musical note if it's not just
talk?) and earcons [might also need hapticons?], there are countless
meetings/conferences/seminars to make a fully "ideophonohaptographic"
presentation both i18n and WAI compliant.
This universality cannot be imposed from some centralized hierarchical
entity as was attempted with Esperanto or Bliss Symbols - and in our time
English.
Multimedia is not just a plaything to be used for selling deodorant pads,
it is a key to universal communication.
Helen Keller lives!
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
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