- From: Paul Davis <paul@ten-20.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:41:11 +0000
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
"In my experience, "realistic" is an industry code word for "requires little effort and costs us nothing." Every -- EVERY -- standard ever imposed on industry, from seat belts to emissions standards, has been met with tremendous resistance and the cry of "be realistic." In my mind, what is unrealistic is expecting people with disabilities to continue to accept second-class status because industry doesn't want to be bothered." Yeah, go to it Charles, I'll hold your coat. You tell 'em, and whilst they are out for the count I will bring up the humble pie I ate the other day right in their laps. Of course the other consideration is the tendency in schools and colleges over here (UK) to teach simple drag and drop web building software, this makes life easy for the teachers as the kids can produce a web site without actually teaching them anything apart from how to use a mouse and what page attributes means. So they get a result. These kids are this afternoon's web builders. 12 years ago a customer of mine could not pay his bill so offered me his expensive but manual camera and a whole host of accessories in lieu of the debt. I took the offer, as I was still married then, and rich. (a wife can be a transitory thing, an ex-wife is for life) I had been taking snapshots for years with expensive but automatic cameras, so once I was confronted by F stops, aperture settings, delayed flashes a whole host of complicated things I was totally lost. I had to go back to college in the evening to learn how to use it. And whilst I am currently having a short love affair/fling with my new digital camera, when I want to take a proper photograph I still use my old manual camera. Everything else are just snaps. Paul Davis www.ten-20.com The UK portal site for disabled people and associated professionals.
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