- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:03:11 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 09:28 AM 6/12/1999 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >For those of you playing along at home -- I routinely bow out of >theoretical discussions whenever the "other side" starts accusing >me of discrimination, bigotry, cruelty, and other such nastiness. I'm rather inclined to call a spade a spade. Prejudice doesn't go away by pretending it isn't noticed, it gets worse. While you insist that accessibility as you need it for yourself, is a good thing and call it "good web design", you dismiss the needs of others as "dumbing down" and say it doesn't deserve consideration as part of "good web design". Your concept of "good web design" is flawed, and your attitude towards those who need graphics is insulting at the very least. You are clearly choosing which groups of disabled are to be accommodated and have excluded some people solely based on your perception of their disability as less deserving than yours. If you have another reason for your disccrimination, you haven't made it clear to me. Your strawman of the "definition of accessibility" was examined and found flawed since accessibility clearly includes understanding. 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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