- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:09:23 -0700
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 11:05 PM 10/18/00 +0100, David Woolley wrote: >And that's exactly how commercial sites discriminate against classes of >user, they simply make it unrealistically difficult for those users >to access the site. If such users have little commercial muscle, they >will find all sites blocked the same way. The problem for many disabled users isn't the commercial sites, but the information sites that are too often all text with no illustrating graphics of any kind and the reading level of the text is too high for the averagely educated individual. Government sites, and sites to exchange information on disability "rights" are the worst! Is it OK for a cognitively disabled users to be turned aside by the IRS site (as an example), but not alright for a blind user to have to use alt-text? Seems to me it's time for users whose basic needs are met to step aside and let unserved users fill their plate. Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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