- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:43:35 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> From: Kynn Bartlett [SMTP:kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com] > > I think that such accusations are unfair to the web designers and > are amazingly misguided as they assume a malice -- "willfully > excluding people" -- which has not been proven. > [DJW:] A typical commercial organisation doesn't set out to exclude; what it does is apply an 80% rule and sets out to include the cheapest/most profitable 80% of the audience, which may well be able bodied people, operating IBM compatibles, less than 3 years old, with at least 32MB of RAM and running IE5 or NS4 with scripts and cookies permanently on and with at least a 33K connection and no upstream bottlenecks and who never validated HTML against DTDs. Effort beyond supporting the 80% is considered wasted effort. [DJW:] -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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