Re: Hiding email addresses in an accessible way

> > What is the complete list of "user agents" in widespread deployment that
> > cannot understand that kind of rudimentary JavaScript? How many people use
> > those?
>
>   What does it matter ?

Baseline capabilities have improved considerably since the publication of
WCAG 1.0 in 1999, that's why. WCAG 1.0 authors were anti-everything,
really: Anti-images, anti-tables, anti-JavaScript, anti-multimedia. Let's
get over that, shall we?

>   But each visitor has a different physical reality. Yours is different
>   from mine - for which I am ever so grateful

Nice. Say that to my face sometime and see how I respond.

>   Accessibility involves making as few assumptions about the physical
>   realities of others as possible:

We're talking not about bodies but about user agents.

>   The exact version of a browser is of no particular interest.

Its capabilities are directly relevant to the publication of accessibility
guidelines.

> > Where is the evidence that anyone other than a few privacy freaks and
> > Slashdot-reading Linux nerds turn JavaScript off? How many of them are
> > disabled?
>
>   Frankly I find this offensive. Is this what you teach people who come
>   to you for advice and knowledge about accessibility ?

Care to answer my question first?

Indeed, will anybody actually answer the questions, or are you going to
have another fun day bitching about my tone?

--

  Joe Clark  |  joeclark@joeclark.org
  Author, _Building Accessible Websites_
  <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>

Received on Monday, 18 August 2003 18:10:12 UTC