- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:39:33 -0400
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- CC: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
looking at the issue for a week now, here is what we are up against. the wai guidelines as they stand, state that if you do certain things, there must be things done that ensure that technologies other than perhaps your high end browser can access them. What is wished for by non readers is that content be delivered and composed in such a way as to make it understandable. we've been talking about the fundamental difference here. My proposed guidelines do nothing really for non readers and may even overlap what the wai already has. I will not write my site and don't know how to write my site because I lack the vision to do it in such a way as to make it richly rewarding for the non reader unless I know that the non reader is going to be a large part of my paying audience or unless I am specifically being contracted to do it. I'd have to have help with this at any rate. as things now, with a bit of help for visual stuff, I can write good well designed web sites that are easy to read and comprehend because I must have easy to read and comprehend sites in order to get any thing out of them because complex sites are tough for me personally to deal with. Does this help at all? It comes down here unfortunately then to a matter of site style. If you choose to populate your site with neat little dancing figures or grapfruit or singing birds, then, follow all the other guidelines. -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s Touching The Internet: mailto:poehlman@clark.net Voice: 301.949.7599 ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/poehlman http://poehlman.clark.net Dynamic Solutions Inc. Best of service for your small business network needs! http://www.dnsolutions.com ---sig off---
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