- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 21:50:38 -0700
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Cc: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>, WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 05:09 PM 10/24/1999 , Gregory J. Rosmaita wrote: >when executives from a company want to interface with their corporation's >intranet via their cell phones, what are that company's IT people going to tell >the people who sign their paychecks [...] Gregory, they're going to tell them "I'm sorry, you can't use your cell phone to access the Intranet" and the executives, not knowing much about interoperability will shrug and say "okay." This is the real world; in the real world, average people (who are _not_ the people on this list -- we are the cult of interoperability here, so if you would scream and fuss about it, you are NOT representative of the company execs!) understand that they may have to use a particular program, installed on all their computers and supported by the IT folks, in order to do a certain task. They may have to save their files in Word 97 format for everyone else to be able to understand, and these average people accept that. Assuming that the chosen technology supports access for disabled users (there are solutions for both of the "major browsers"), there is no accessibility issue there. There may be an INTEROPERABILITY issue, but that is a business decision of the company and in many cases interoperability _costs_. -- 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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