- From: Charles F. Munat <chas@munat.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:37:49 -0700
- To: "'Suzanne Nikolaisen'" <nikolaisen@yahoo.com>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Suzanne Nikolaisen wrote: "One thing about many of the non-accessible sites is that they were created by people who have access to develop for 2 FREE browsers: IE and Netscape. They can easily test their pages in those browsers. As a developer I've been on a quest for free accessible browsers and the only one that I've heard about so far is Brookes Talk . . . Since, for me, learning about accessibility is an 'after hours' project and I don't have an endless budget I can't go around buying up browsers to see how my pages are handled with them." Suzanne, Often the companies that build accessible browsers will provide free copies to developers. Personally, I think that this is a very wise idea. It helps to ensure that more sites "look" good in that browser, and it provides added publicity. Usually, the trade-off is that you must include an icon on one of your sites and link it to the browser's home page. That seems fair. On most of my sites I try to include a page that talks about accessibility wrt the site. I tell my clients that it is "good PR" for them. That gives me a page to add such icons if need be. I got a copy of pwWebspeak a couple of years ago by this method. I don't know if they're still willing to do it. It doesn't cost them anything: as a "temporarily able-bodied" person, I am not a potential customer anyway. Try contacting those companies to see if they'll work a deal with you. Charles Munat, Seattle, Washington
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