- From: Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC <Norman.B.Robinson@usps.gov>
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:04:07 -0500
- To: "Andrew Kirkpatrick" <akirkpat@adobe.com>, "John M Slatin" <john_slatin@austin.utexas.edu>, "Gregg Vanderheiden" <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Andrew Kirkpatrick said "I'd love to see the term 'multimedia' extracted completely from this document. It means too much and too little, and given that the real issue is equivalents for specific, well-defined media types, we should sharpen the focus on those media types instead of trying to encompass everything under an umbrella term." I'll second that motion. Multimedia is a marketing term at best - I don't believe in it, other than trying to determine if the term applies based on what was intended and interpreted in certain standard. There is simply 'media' and people who need access to it, regardless of abilities. Keeping that idea in mind will make 'multimedia' a term used to describe certain types of content, but we shouldn't tie access to multimedia. It undermines our ability to clearly communicate accessibility is required by media type and not only when it is called "multimedia". Regards, Norman Robinson
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