- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:48:40 -0700
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>, "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>, "WAI Guidelines WG" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 6:21 PM -0400 2001/8/18, Anne Pemberton wrote: >PS: if you knew me well, you would know that my "bias" for graphics >in this discussion is due to the mission I came with on this list - >to see that those who depend on graphics had someone speaking for >them as these important guidelines are brought into being. I think it's important for all of us to remember that this is an audience which, unlike blind, deaf, and motion-challenged audiences, is really unable to speak for itself and represent their own views in a technical forum such as this. Thus it's good to have SOME kind of reminder that they exist, because it is all too easy to ignore those who cannot speak up. Whether Anne is the ideal representative for those interests is almost beside the point; at this point we have very few other people who are willing to carry that torch. If you don't like Anne, or want a more 'balanced' view, or whatever, the trick is not to try to get her to shut up about whatever tangent she wants to go off on. The trick is to find more people willing to join our group and champion the cause of those who can't represent themselves -- and put up with the backlash against ideas which support greater accessibility for people with mental disabilities. (If you believe that there is _not_ a backlash then you are fooling yourself. It's -not- just Anne's personality here, the ideas she says are as threatening to many of us -- self included quite often -- as _our_ majority ideas about blind user accessibility are to graphic artists.) --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> Technical Developer Liaison Reef North America Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network Tel +1 949-567-7006 ________________________________________ BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. ________________________________________ http://www.reef.com
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