- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 06:03:38 -0800
- To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 06:59 AM 3/7/01 -0500, Anne Pemberton wrote:
>Remember that what is "distracting" to one person is the very thing that
>makes a page a memorable experience to someone else
Hence the concept "controllable".
The "hooks to controllability" is another way of requesting semantics from
authors. Occasionally such can be deduced either from heuristics or the
essential nature of an element. There are some things authors can do to
help in this but "just say no" simply will not work.
There are people who think <blink> qualifies as useful and since it's easy
enough to identify/counteract it needs no special proscription. Animation
is a bit more iffy in regard to its "distractability index" but just as the
burden for text-to-speech has traditionally been placed on blind users, so
"attention-diversion repair" will rest on user agents.
Just my opinion I could (as is often the case) be wrong - but I feel
strongly that telling authors not to use *certain levels* of distractive
material is a completely vain tilt at a rather vaporous windmill.
--
Love.
ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE
Received on Wednesday, 7 March 2001 09:04:12 UTC