- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 02:48:45 +0100
- To: "Matt May" <mcmay@bestkungfu.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Matt you've completely missed the point I was trying to make. By transforming the way in which the message is to be delivered, ie via the senses, rather than textually, it is made accessible to people that would otherwise not get it. corporate sites that attempt something similar include from cinema http://www.disney.co.uk from fast foods http://www.wotsits.co.uk/home.html from music, well they are too numerous: http://www.getmusic.com/peeps/rkelly/TP-2com.html or maybe the player currently at http://www.aristarec.com/ is a particularly transparent means of selecting the artist you want to hear.. I consider endless tracts of english to be obstructive unless they are summarised well, and ideally with alternatives to text. Thus means not just providing summaries of the parts but the whole. for example when i type the name of a popstar in a search engine and get taken to an unsuitable site, that is an example of a summary being deliberately obstructive. similarly many corporate sites, why does MS spring to mind, are very difficult to navigate. jonathan chetwynd IT teacher (LD) j.chetwynd@btinternet.com http://www.signbrowser.org.uk
Received on Sunday, 22 April 2001 21:56:54 UTC