- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:16:43 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
William, Your reply seems to support my original statement. Perhaps WCAG would be better received if there were clear statements that graphics and multimedia, properly coded and tagged, are *necessary* for many folks with disabilities. Anne At 11:07 AM 10/17/1999 -0700, 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. In every case the language of guidelines, >checkpoints, and techniques/examples is not directed towards reduction >of multimedia events but in their enhancement. The misguided but >prevalent impression that WAI's purpose is to turn the Web into a deadly >dull, boring text-only medium is quite simply *wrong* and forms one of >the main barriers to WCAG acceptance. Because there is emphasis on >matters of access for blind people in no way means that this is the >*only* group of PWDs of interest to WAI but that so many access problems >for them are generally illustrative of the problems that necessitate the >Initiative in the first place. > >-- >Love. > ACCESSIBILITY IS RIGHT - NOT PRIVILEGE >http://dicomp.pair.com > Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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