- From: Reidy Brown <rbrown@blackboard.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:24:00 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I'm a little surprised that no one (especially Kynn) has talked about using server-side logic to create customized pages based on user preferences. It's true that many small business web sites are static, but a growing number of commercial sites use Cold Fusion, ASP, JSP, cgi,php or other server side technology. It's not a trivial matter, certainly, but it is possible to set up the site to generate no-image, low-bandwidth, and high-bandwith pages on demand. With a little additional thought, you can set the system to handle client-side logic (javascript) where possible or desired (and many people _do_ want this) and server-side logic where necessary. Admittedly, it's not a quick-fix solution, but it is a viable option for well-engineered web sites. And for those that don't have the capability in-house, something like Edapta is an up-and-coming solution. I'm not familiar enough with Edapta's functionality, but I suspect that this is the sort of thing it's designed to do for existing sites. Reidy ------------------------------------------- Reidy Brown Accessibility Coordinator/ Software Engineer Blackboard, Inc. ------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: David Poehlman [mailto:poehlman@clark.net] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 6:24 PM To: Anne Pemberton Cc: Dave J Woolley; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: How to convince businesses to be accessible... I think we need to carefully define accessability. it is no more just a question of who need what to access in terms of disability. it is fast becoming what will the software and hardware will bear and I am here to tell you that that will decrease drastically over time. graphics should get out of the way of information and lower costs for the connection mean more buying power for those businesses trying to sell to us. -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s ftp://poehlman.clark.net http://poehlman.clark.net mailto:poehlman@clark.net voice 301-949-7599 end sig.
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