- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:03:51 -0700
- To: Chris Maden <crism@oreilly.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 11:49 AM 6/11/1999 , Chris Maden wrote: >Charles did a pretty good job of simplifying the >discussion, but at the cost of omitting key terms that are necessary >for communicating about the concept outside the scope of that >particular discourse. By the way, I would say, as a fully cognitive, fully "able bodied" (although admittedly an out of shape body at that!) person, I found the paragraph by Ann to be 100% "accessible" in the sense we are using here, but not very "understandable." But that's okay -- because I haven't looked at XML specs myself and figured out what they mean. My own lack of understanding does not render Ann's content "inaccessible" any more than if she said it in French. Accessibility is about _getting at_ the content, not _understanding_ it. Anything else will hopelessly confuse the issue. -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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