- From: <Lovey@aol.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 13:58:02 EDT
- To: love26@gorge.net, w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
In a message dated 8/12/98 11:03:48 AM, love26@gorge.net wrote: <<Have we been (are being?) blind (pun intneded) to this because it might account for a large area of the biggest problem - the Web design attitude that holds appearance to transcend in importance the "content"?>> The answer to your query is yes. Most professional graphic work has been done on Macs for well over the past decade. Many Service Bureaus and Graphic Arts houses have expanded their businesses to include HTML Authoring, Design and Hosting - and all I see are MACS. Windows NT's are used - but mainly as servers - we'll see what happens when Rhapsody is released in the fall. This affirms your remark - graphics artists are becoming HTML Authors - HTML is easy.Yet many do not know WAI exsists - or bother with it. (I myself only stumbled onto it earlier this year) Many of these authors have marketing/art backgrounds rather than computer science backgrounds as is commonly believed, and "aesthetics" are first and foremost. (ref: Tom's 25 year soapbox) In my opinion, the original purpose of HTML as a universal language tool to convey information "virtually" and not a "visual media" is lost on a vast majority. The implemetation of HTML 4.0 and CSS is seen more as a means of "Brute Force" design to use HTML (with approval through validation) to do what it was *not* meant to do. Personaly I feel many of the websites we are seeing today are attempting to duplicate television! But MACs are out there en mass and are the tool of the trade for Graphic Artists and designers come HTML Authors. Accessibility immediately throws out a red flag - not with concern about the thousands that are not able to access a site, nor concern of non-compliance with Disability Rights Laws- but in time and $$. Yet the first and formost obstacle is education, getting the message out loud and clear - not to the disabled and handicapped - but to the able bodied HTML authors whom are not aware of this very important issue. Kindest regards, -L
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