- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 07:13:05 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
I don't have statistics, but I believe that there are many more privately authored sites (although the overall amount of content may be more heavily slanted towards corporations and governments, since they are generally large-scale producers of content). I think even in working with corporate information providers it is important to be speaking at the level of the mythical "everyman" (also known as Jane Citizen, and a number of other monikers). At the Quality Assurance Workshop recently the representative from Boeing pointed out that they expect every one of their quarter-of-a-million employees to be able to generate web content. Most of those people are trained in something else, from Aircraft design to catering (Where would you expect to find next week's cafeteria menu? On the (intranet) web, naturally...) Cheers Charles McCN On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: does anyone have any stats on the proportions of corporate to privately authored pages/hits. I suppose its a complex problem, however my impression remains that there are far more private sites. By private I mean any site which was developed without the means of an accessibility expert. This gives all of us some idea as to the need to avoid technical language when communicating with this group. jonathan chetwynd IT teacher (LD) j.chetwynd@btinternet.com http://www.signbrowser.org.uk -- Charles McCathieNevile http://www.w3.org/People/Charles phone: +61 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI fax: +1 617 258 5999 Location: 21 Mitchell street FOOTSCRAY Vic 3011, Australia (or W3C INRIA, Route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France)
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