- From: David Poehlman <poehlman@clark.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 09:10:59 -0400
- To: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- CC: Wayne Myers-Education <wayne.myers@bbc.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
...it seems we are going in circles... Anne! have you or your husband been in a horriffic trafic jam on one of those cool highways lately because of a huge pile up of fast movers? I have and it ain't pretty. How's that for a graphic. we don't want text only, we just want to take the lead in setting the standards for social responsibility where the internet is concerned after the geeny has already escaped from the bottle. I don't know why you don't have a problem with speed when as you say, some of your pages are 5 to 7 mb in size and that with pictures only. I become extremely frustrated when I download a 30 second clip of audio waiting several minutes for it to transfer only to find it won't play or was corrupted in the process or requires a plug in that I don't have or the latest achievement in one or another technology of the multiple formats for audio that are available. I try to keep up with them but some times fail and it takes a lot of time for me to update all these little things. One of the things that must happen before substantial gains can be made is that some sort of standard has to come forward so that anything I get I can play whether it is audio, dancing images or multi media. I also want to play it on the server so I don't have to download it or download something small that directly connects to the server. for an example of this, see: http://www.acbradio.org and take a look at their little tuner that doesn't require to download anything once it is downloaded <small> and easily installed. It opens the appropriate player, goes out to the source and begins playing it almost instantly and allows you to switch sources almost seemlessly. Untill this kind of technology is more widely used and becomes more realtime in action, what you proppose will not be feasable beyond the classroom. I too want and need multimedia and other things like instant two way text and voice and visualization with someone sitting in a live chair at the other end of that store front web site but this is just not practical at this point. I want graphics for muy sighted and textually challenged peers and coleagues so that we can share and work together but I hate traffic jams. -- Hands-On Technolog(eye)s mailto:david.h.poehlman@verizon.net voice 301-949-7599 end sig.
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