Seems to me this is called Universal Design.
Sincerely,
Mike Burks
-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org]On
Behalf Of Ineke van der Maat
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:59 AM
To: Nouiouat, Athmane; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Democracy
Hallo Athmane,
As webdesigner and also as one of the founders of the green party in the
Netherlands I am already very interested in your book.
Can you explain me what the difference is between a liberal and a
conservative website?
Till now the western industries make people dependent on their
technology.
It's better to offer your knowledge about that technology so that people
have really a free choice and can apply it themselves to their own wishes.
That is in my opinion the only manner to offer democratic options. Or was
that what you meant to say?
Kind regards from the Netherlands
Ineke van der Maat
Without getting in the details, I was trying to make a
philosophical point about:
1- the Design of Sites should be based on all possible types of users out
there thus the concept
of User Classes, from the most liberal to the most conservative styles
(isn't that democracy!).
I believe we will be more successfull by giving choices as opposed to
mandating options.
2- Who are we to mandate to 6 Billion people how to design or what to put
in their Web sites? Why
not provide all, technically possible, options through the technology and
let people (the users,
designers, etc) choose. I could probably write a book about this! Take
care
athmane
