- From: Scott Luebking <phoenixl@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:14:16 -0700 (PDT)
- To: charles@w3.org, phoenixl@netcom.com
- Cc: poehlman@clark.net, sweetent@home.com, unagi69@concentric.net, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, Charles I'm not quite sure what your point is. Issues of interaction via web technology will be coming more to the forefront as recognition of the benefits becomes more common. People like interaction. They learn better. It's more interesting and fun. I haven't heard of people doing much research on how interaction on web pages can improve accessibility. As I've been watching blind people using web pages, a common problem I've seen is getting a sense of context of the page. (It's not that dissimilar to what a blind person has to do when moving into a new office or bedroom.) What would be helpful in web page interaction for long distance learning (or other situations) is having a key that the blind person hits and a box pops up giving a quick explanation of the purpose of the page in the course along with any special aspects about the page. (Current software technology has a hard time recognizing purposes of pages.) Again, this technique falls outside of interoperability, but sure would make it easier for blind users. Scott PS If interoperability is such an important issue, why doesn't W3C just say all browsers should work the same? (There would be the nagging real world business issues of product differentiation and browser improvement.) > I agree that students would prefer interaction to text. The flip side is that > students will vastly prefer text to not being able to use essential or > important course materials. > > Charles
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