- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:43:49 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 01:53 p.m. 11/17/98 -0500, Shawn Denny wrote: >IMHO, Mr. Raspberry isn't arguing the case for general Web accessibility, he >is arguing against convenience of access when there is inconvenience to the >information provider. The amount of "inconvenience" necessary to create accessible websites is MINIMAL, especially when compared to the amount of time, energy, and money that is regularly invested in inaccessible, unusable "cutting edge" advances. In other words, putting a table in HTML costs a FRACTION of the cost of making, say, an animated, interactive java map that only a subset of your audience can use. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.idyllmtn.com/~kynn/ Chief Technologist & Co-Owner, Idyll Mountain Internet; Fullerton, California Enroll now for web accessibility with HTML 4.0! http://www.hwg.org/classes/ The voice of the future? http://www.hwg.org/opcenter/w3c/voicebrowsers.html
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