- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:59:28 -0800
- To: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong@naw.org>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 02:55 p.m. 12/16/98 -0500, B.K. DeLong wrote: >At 02:37 PM 12/16/98 -0500, Lovey@aol.com wrote: >>Hi BK - check out: >>http://www.webstandards.org/news.html >>for all the latest on Gecko and IE Browsers regarding compliance. >I know about that...I'm on the Steering Committee for the Web Standards >Project. I would personally be more pleased with the so-called "Web Standards Project" if they would actually promote the use of web standards by designers. Their party line seems to be "web standards are for the BROWSER MAKERS, we wouldn't dare think of holding ourselves or other artistes to that level of compliance." Which ultimately hurts accessibility -- it's hard to get people to code properly accessible HTML if they're unwilling to code valid HTML at all. I'm sadded that the WSP has chosen to vocally declare that web authors should NOT worry about following web standards. Standards are for "them", not "us", apparently. -- 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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