- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:21:11 -0400
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 04:59 PM 6/10/1999 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >Maybe we're speaking a different language here -- do _you_ create >web sites and do _you_ understand what specific technical factors I >speak of when I say that web authors should create "accessible" >web sites? Kynn, Check out the links from my signature file and decide for yourself if I "Create" web sites or not. Most of my sites are upgraded from time to time, and I incorporate whatever new I've learned in the upgrades, so there are no longer any examples of pages I created in pure HTML. The last site listed, for the Enabling Support Foundation, is the only one for which I attempted to attain "accessibility" for the blind, because the membership of the foundation is heavy with those with visual impairments. We say our services are for ALL persons with disabilities, and I looked to the guidelines for help in making those pages accessible to people who need graphics, and found the guidelines totally silent on the issue and of no use to my problem. Hence my presence here. One of the sites listed is for the Academy One project that was once a big educational enterprise on the Internet that fell due to lack of funding. Academy One contains links to the "Whatever" page, created by and for LD kids by a class in Northern VA. It also contains a link to the "Battle of Five Forks", a large site devoted to telling the story of a single but pivotal battle at the end of the Civil War. Both the original Academy One site, and the earliest versions of Five Forks were created in HTML. They were updated in Front Page. On my personal site, there are pages created in Front Page and some made in Publisher. The most recent addition "Easter at Bavon" is probably the only one that is "accessible" to the blind, tho it may not be that interesting since it's mostly a display of lots of photos. You can look at my work and decide for yourself if I am sufficiently knowledgeable of the work of a "web author". Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/apembert apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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