- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:19:05 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 08:14 PM 6/10/1999 -0400, Ann Navarro wrote: >Until the *how* is demonstrated, the reaction you're going to get from web >developers is "gee, that's well intentioned, but naive/unreasonable". The >reality for this example may be the same as that initial reaction. > >Note that this exercise doesn't even begin to address the issue of why a >child needs to understand occurance indicators within element declarations >in an XML DTD, or why a technical discussion is obligated to make such >information "understandable" by anyone who may come across it. As I've said in my past posts, I am not the person who wants ALL pages changed, but I do want to see guidelines for accessibility outline the ways that pages with important information useful to persons with cognitive disabilities developed. As Kelly said in his last post, it isn't necessary to make a web page with a flight simulator accessible to the blind because they are unlikely to ever be able to fly a plane anyway. Putting alt tags on such a page would be a waste of a very small amount of time because they would probably never be used anway. As to children using the information in your book, I suspect there will be some who would want to do so. If your book isn't written so they can use it, they won't buy it (or return it if they do). I think it's sad that kids can access web sites that tell them how to bomb their school, but aren't welcomed on sites with information useful to them in their schooling and out-of-school activities. But that is all an aside to the issue I'm trying to promote in this thread. 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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