- From: Steve Baty <steve@redsquare.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:51:26 +1000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sorry, one further point here....approximately half of the world's population has never made a telephone call. We have a long, long way to go before Web content is accessible to this group. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Baty" <steve@redsquare.com> To: "Charles F. Munat" <chas@munat.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 4:41 PM Subject: Re: Challenge: Defining accessibility > Charles, > > I think in terms of the Content Accessibility guidelines it is a bit much to > include "economic hardship" as a disability. Yes, agreed, it does constitute > a barrier for the user in terms of accessing the content, but it is not the > fault of the content per se. You can't blame the content when the problem is > actually lack of access to the technology as a whole. > > However, would you (could you) draw the same parallels with Television or > radio? There is a certain amount of economic divisiveness here also - cost > of a TV, cable etc; same with radio. Is there, and should there be, an > initiative to make sure that all people have access to TV content regardless > of disability/disadvantage? > > It is an ambitious and laudable goal, making the Web available to all > regardless of their situation in life. However, I think ensuring that those > people who _can_ access the 'Net are able to utilise the content is a good > first step. > > Cheers > Steve
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