- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 21:17:26 -0500
- To: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
aloha, charles!
you observed:
quote
This article repeats a common myth that the use o colour will be restricted
by accesibility requirements. This is "more or less bunk", based as far as
I can tell on a failure to understand a very simple sentence in a W3C
recommendation: "Do not use colour alone to convey information". Note the
use of the word "Alone" in that sentence.
unquote
it is the product of accepting on faith that something is proscribed simply
because someone told you that it is... in journalistic circles there once
existed a quaint custom called checking one's facts, which has, apparently,
died out... sloppy reporting isn't anything new, but the failure of the
technological press to understand the true issues is pretty damn
depressing... one would think that, especially in a technological setting,
checking one's facts would be as fundamental as validating pages before
exposing them to the world, but, then...
oh, well,
gregory
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