- From: jonathan chetwynd <jonathan@signbrowser.free-online.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 15:22:23 +0100
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
and another lacking sympathy, are illiterates to be banned from the web, because they cannot create sites with text tools. The fact is there are other means. and I have tried to collect links to a few on our site. Not a plug, but a demand for W3C to face the music and stop copping out. jay@peepo.com Our site www.peepo.com is a drive thru. When you see a link of interest, click on it. Move the mouse to slow down. It is a graphical aid to browsing the www. We value your comments. ----- Original Message ----- From: William Loughborough <love26@gorge.net> To: jonathan chetwynd <jay@peepo.com> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 2:27 PM Subject: Re: QED & Marshall McLuhan > JC:: "For non readers with cognitive disability, it comes close to being > a paradigm or inaccessability." > > WL: Your email is exactly as close to being such a paradigm as is the > W3C site. If I could not read, I could not read your email. Is there > any solution to that? I've been following your posts for a while and > still don't find any solution to the age-old problem of how one might > read without being literate. If you can think of any way to resolve > this, it would be gladly received but the notion of putting colors into > words, or describing sounds without making the sounds seems, well, out > of the realm of possibility. Please disabuse me of this notion. I know > how frustrating it is to be illiterate from my days as a two-year-old > and whenever I encounter a site in Japanese, but I've never seen a > proposal for getting around that - other than learning to read. > > -- > Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE > http://dicomp.pair.com >
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