- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:27:35 -0800
- To: Claude Sweet <sweetent@home.com>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 01:54 PM 11/18/1999 , Claude Sweet wrote: >I get the feeling that there is a secret society promoting Accessibility >and everyone who joins MUST suffer the pain and steep learning process >in order to qualify for membership all the while someone keeps hollering >"Its easy to do, if I can learn how to write accessible code - so can >you!" Actually the problem is that there aren't any tools which are that good at accessibility. I wish there were -- and so does the WAI, that's why the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines were written. If you look at ATAG (and you should! they're in final review for a W3C recommendation), you'll see that few tools really do measure up even minimally. Which means that it's not a case of secret hidden knowledge in web accessibility, it's a case that we can't just say "just Tool Y, it will do the job for you!" Sadly, in order to create accessible markup, you -will- have to do some correction of what your web creation tool gives you. That's a harsh reality of life, but one controlled by the tool makers, not by the hand coders. Fortunately, though, markup _is_ gawshawfulsimple, and is some of the easiest computer "programming" [sic] you'll ever have to do. Thus, it's not that bad to ask someone to learn HTML, if they want to be able to do it right. -- 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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