- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 14:06:08 -0400
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
actually, foreign languages can be written in characters if you choose to do so. the point I was making though is that it is one thing to have a problem that requires an unveiling solution and quite another to have something unveiled and not be able to access it if you will. for instance. I can access lots of info about topics for which I have no requisit background and therefore are incomprehensible to me. I am not saying that comprehendability is not a part of access as a whole. I am saying that our current guidelines and rightly so aim at strenthening the availability of information and that ot go further there needs to be a different set of guidelines. A ghetto, perhaps we should consider that since on one hand, it seems that many can not do without text and on the other, some some say many need graphics, lots of graphics and only graphics. I posit that the latter group is more specialized and that those who do not need but are not hindered by text and those who need text for access make up the bulk of those who would purchase from the web and also for reasons previously stated, many individuals who do not need text alone would be barred from using sites that would seek to remedy the graphics only situation. -- 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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