- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:00:46 -0800
- To: "Charles F. Munat" <coder@acnet.net>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 01:18 a.m. 01/03/99 -0600, Charles F. Munat wrote: >The fallacy of your argument, Kynn, is obvious. You have >stated that you are not disabled. Yet you obviously are a >passionate advocate for accessibility. Is this really only a >selfish pursuit for business gain, or are you in fact an >ethical, moral person? My guess is the later. I actually don't do this _just_ because of the disabled. For the most part, I'm interested in accessibility because when I do something, I believe in doing it _right_. Making an accessible page is making an HTML page _right_. Sure, it benefits the disabled -- but it also benefits the search engines, the web tv users, etc etc etc. Y'know, the list you don't want to hear about anymore. :) I'm a web author first and foremost. I'm the president of the HTML Writers Guild. In my everyday life, I have little to no contact with handicapped people, and I have never been involved with any charity or organization that is dedicated to improving things for the disabled -- outside of my activities regarding web accessibility. So, I think I'd say that I'm NOT doing it because it's morally and ethically right to be nice to blind folks; I think the best you can come up with is that I believe it's ethically right to do the best job you can when making a web page. [BTW, to those of you who _are_ "activists for disabled people" or disabled yourself or whatever, this does not mean that I have no interest in those issues; however, I am identifying my primary motivations here and trying to explain that not everyone in this fight automatically is here for the same reasons. I'm not _against_ organizations that help the disabled; I simply have never devoted my time to that.] -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Design an accessible web site: http://www.kynn.com/+fedweb Tell your friend a celebrity wrote to you: http://www.kynn.com/+imdb Enroll now for my online CSS course! http://www.kynn.com/+css
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