- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:50:48 -0800
- To: love26@gorge.net (William Loughborough)
- Cc: Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>, w3c-wai-gl@w3.org, Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>, allan_jm@tsb1.tsbvi.edu, thoeg@get2net.dk, seeman@netvision.net.il, Max@w3.org, Jason White <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, cpl@starlingweb.com
At 03:03 PM 1/22/2001 , William Loughborough wrote: >I think the main problem is that we can only look at how many rotary dial phones are in use, learn that it is less than the number of cell phones thrown into the dumpster on the TV ad and conclude that obsolescence will run past us before we can collate the survey. The Web's the thing and the underlayment recedes in importance with each passing moment. Do you think it is, therefore, unsolvable? Because we, the experts on accessibility, many of us full time "web gods" in the eyes of the average user, can't figure it out -- what hope do they have? If we can't even collate a survey with the W3C's resources, knowledge, and influence, how on earth can the typical corporate web monkey hope to make the decisions -themselves-, which is what the current "until user agents" phrasing demands? I think we have to do -something-, clearly, and I think that "something" consists of either making the decision for the WCAG reader or giving them enough information to make the decision themselves. The burden has to be on -us-, not on -them-. Maybe it -is- insoluble. In which case we need to work around the problem in some way. I don't know what that is. Does anyone? --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Technical Developer Relations, Reef http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Ed. Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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