- From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:15:12 +0200
- To: "Lee Roberts" <leeroberts@roserockdesign.com>, "Bazzmann.Com - Marco Trevisan" <info@bazzmann.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Roberts" <leeroberts@roserockdesign.com> To: "Bazzmann.Com - Marco Trevisan" <info@bazzmann.com>; <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:01 PM Subject: RE: WCAG 2.0 usage scenarios > > I'm with keeping them differences as Wendy has them. > > Rationale: > Not all web designers are graphic designers. Some may think or operate > differently, but in all truthfulness until companies started having graphic > designers learn HTML there was a strong destintion. The destinction has > only been faded in the past few years, but there are still companies out > there that realize the worth of separating the different principles. > > In my firm I have graphic designers, programmers, and GUI designers. The > graphic designer does the layout, the programmers do the backend programming > (PHP, Perl, ASP, databases, and the like), and the GUI designers specialize > in either either the interface coding or usability. > > Conclusion: > Based upon my experiences Wendy's separation of the differences is vitally > important. Eventually we will all be at the separation instead of trying to > train someone to be a specialist in more than one field. it is right... a web designer is not always a graphic designer... We as IWA/HWG are defining the definition of web professional specification (IWA/HWG International has made these since 1996...) and we are trying to create a "point of division" of these two specialities. For example, i have some web designers that are IWA-ITALY members that are also graphic designer and they prefer to develop web sites with a lot of graphic and animation, and some web designers that are now specializing in simple design for web site and contents.... By the way, i think that is more simple to have a "web designer only" that develops web accessible web sites than a "graph and web designer" that prefer more "look" for web site and contents. Roberto Scano IWA/HWG EMEA Coordinator W3C Advisory Commitee Representative for IWA/HWG International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild http://www.iwanet.org - http://www.hwg.org E-Mail: emea@iwanet.org - w3c-rep@iwanet.org --------------------------------------------------------------------
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