- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:10:32 -0700
- To: love26@gorge.net
- Cc: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 11:07 AM 10/17/1999 , William Loughborough wrote: >AP:: "The idea that the web can be made "more accessible" by decreasing >the use of graphics or multimedia needs to be replaced..." >WL: The notion that the guidelines aim to "decrease use of graphics" is >totally erroneous. Thanks for pointing this out, William, because otherwise I'd have to point it out. Heck, I'll do it anyway. Web accessibility is NOT about "stopping what you're doing" or holding anyone back; it's NOT about least-common-denominators or text-only design. Web accessibility is about multi-modal alternatives for everyone and pages that use the most advanced technology possible, while degrading gracefully to something that can be used anyone. -- 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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