- From: Javier Romaņach <jromanac@dial.eunet.es>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 01:23:19 +0200
- To: "Paul Davis" <paul@ten-20.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
Hello Kynn, I liked the list of responsabilities. I'm missing the web creation software manufacturer (if different from browser), probably between points 4 and 5. I firmly believe that we won't have accesible Internet until the editors are capable of generating accesible web pages with just one click. Regards, Javier Javier Romaņach Madrid, Spain jromanac@dial.eunet.es ----- Original Message ----- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com> To: Paul Davis <paul@ten-20.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 8:23 PM Subject: Re: Accessibility, discrimination, and WCAG 2.0 > At 4:38 PM +0100 10/22/00, Paul Davis wrote: > >As to who is responsible for accessibility it has to be the > >designer. If we have a house built that later falls down who takes > >the blame? If we buy equipment that is faulty who has to replace it? > > Paul, I think this is a bit of an oversimplification -- because the > house builder is not entirely responsible for the user's experience. > (And it's user experiences which are inaccessible or accessible to > a given user.) > > The people responsible include: > > (1) The user, for making sure that her software and hardware is > configured correctly. > (2) The hardware manufacturers. > (3) The operating system manufacturer. > (4) The browser software manufacturer. > (5) The manufacturer of any additional assistive technology, hardware > or software. > (6) The web designer and/or the web programmer associated with the > site in question. > (7) The people who create the standards (protocols, languages) > used by the web designer or web programmer. > > At the WAI level, we're primarily concerned with people in (6) and > (7), but it's not entirely the fault of the web designer if someone > cannot access information; you can't assume that it will always be > the designer's fault. > > (Likewise, if a house falls down, you can blame a number of people -- > the carpenter, the people who supplied the wood, the building > inspectors, etc. etc. etc. It's not as simple as just blaming the > architect!) > > --Kynn > -- > -- > Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> > http://www.kynn.com/ > >
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