- From: Mike Paciello <paciello@ma.ultranet.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:09:04 -0500
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, love26@gorge.net
- Cc: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
As the old saying goes, "Fight fire with fire" -- I contacted a good friend of mine at the Globe -- Hiawatha Bray. He'll be coming out with a response to the Post article in the Globe. All-in-all this bodes well for the disabilities/accessibility community -- press and media = awareness. Regards, Mike At 02:47 PM 11/17/98 -0800, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >At 12:27 p.m. 11/17/98 -0800, William Loughborough wrote: >>WL:: Perhaps the Web is "already there" because in fact there are not >>other means of access to this information in many places. Try on a >>Sunday to get information from a transit company. Increasingly the Web >>is the main source. > >The web _will_ be the ONLY main source soon. This is the future. >The world is heading that way. > >The steps that we take NOW, the fights we fight and the battles we >win at the EARLY stages of the game, will mean EVERYTHING to future >accessibility for everyone. > >That is why it's so vitally important to get the word out NOW, and >make our presence heard, because otherwise those "without" (without >the latest tech, without a big budget for hardware, without the >ability to see, without a fast connection) will be left behind, >possibly forever. > >(I'm not disagreeing with William. I'm just venting some more.) > >-- >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 > Mike Paciello Email: <paciello@ma.ultranet.com> WebABLE! Solutions Tel: (603) 598-9544 131 D.W. Highway #618 Fax: (603) 598-2839 Nashua, NH 03060 WWW: <http:://www.webable.com> "A creativity initiative is any proposal for action-inciting change that earns at least one serious conversation with someone other than the originator’s spouse, friend, or office mate…." – John Kao, Jamming
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