- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:28:13 -0700
- To: "Bruce Bailey" <bbailey@clark.net>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 03:44 PM 5/21/1999 -0400, Bruce Bailey wrote: >How were these folks convinced that >universal desegregation WAS as good thing? How do we convince a blind user >-- who LIKES coming across "text-only" pages that s/he is accepting a >"disability ghetto"? In this case we need to show them that graphically robust, highly interactive, bleeding edge sites can be made accessible to them just as easily -- or easier! -- as text-only sites. This relies on "converting" the high end design folks to the cause -- infecting them with the accessible web authoring meme. That can be tricky because most of them have heard the myths alluded to in http://www.kynn.com/+myths -- so we need to educate them, and then we can show the doubters in the disabled community that we _can_ make sites usable by everyone, and they don't have to be the second-class citizens of the web, entering through the plain, unmarked door at the side of the store. -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> President, Governing Board Member HTML Writers Guild <URL:http://www.hwg.org> Director, Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center <URL:http://aware.hwg.org/>
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