- From: Claude Sweet <sweetent@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 19:29:45 -0800
- To: Chris Kreussling <CHRIS.KREUSSLING@ny.frb.org>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I wonder what reception the following comments would receive if they were written about people who have accessibility problems and the inference was that "so what if a person with a handicap can access the site, they're not going to "buy" the product or use the information contained in the web site, so the inaccessibility should not affect them". >Since the casual or beginning web author is not going to care about >accessibility, they're not even going to *look* for guidelines, so >their length will not intimidate them. Surely accessibility must apply to both handicapped and non handicapped individuals. The assumption that people will not have the ability, expertise, and/or motivation to use and/or understand the guidelines because they are not major, big time, power using html authors really ranks of a double standard. Is it an acceptable or unacceptable excuse to state "we didn't intend the guidelines as an educational endeavor, but only as establishing accessibility guidelines? I guess the answer depends on how you apply the excuse to other individuals whose sites and not accessible. Claude Sweet A novice web designer
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