- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 20:13:30 -0800
- To: Jamal Mazrui <empower@smart.net>
- Cc: <jasonw@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 11:56 p.m. 12/06/98 +0400, Jamal Mazrui wrote: >I do maintain that plain text is superior for >universal accessibility over any other single format. Actually, HTML is better because it allows for embedding of structure and meta-content that doesn't exist in plain text. Granted, there's a problem right now in that some of the tools that exist now are designed only to work with plain text and not with HTML -- but I suspect this will change soon in the future. (If not HTML itself, then XML or another descendant.) -- 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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