- From: jonathan chetwynd <jonathan@signbrowser.free-online.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 17:05:12 +0100
- To: <love26@gorge.net>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I have to agree, with the comment "the guidelines seem oriented towards
read-only pages, and say little about interaction, even about design of
forms (except to provide an email address for direct correspondence)."
I believe that this is historical and a response to the large and powerful
'poor vision' lobby.
Al Gilman asked me to describe the needs of people with Special Educational
Needs accessing the www.
It is a very large problem. and whether you have a detailed list or just a
few ideas please mail them.
My concerns include:
Non readers have problems accessing the www.
Difficulty browsing for any amount of time/depth.
Fostering of Community.
Authoring of sites.
Providing a means of authoring.
Copyright: graphics are protected, letters,words and sentences less so.
Preferred method of learning:
Confusion created by text labels/alt tags popping up. essential for
blind, but why are they seen?
Clarity of content.
The large number of sites with huge amounts of text, I suggest a max of
30 words as a guide.
Unfortunately I shall not be able to devote much time on this until mid
June.
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