- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 08:47:06 -0700
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 4:35 PM +0100 2001/7/08, David Woolley wrote: >The easy solution tends to be to >class any minority browser as an almost ran and produce a token, lowest >common denominator, solution, and then fail to maintain (cue Kynn on >dynamic versions from a common source - but I don't think that is a >solution without a large will to maintain such versions). You're right about that -- the biggest hurdle we have at Reef selling our EveryWare product (formerly "Edapta") is that you -do- have to already have a commitment to delivering multiple versions. If someone simply doesn't care -- not about people with disabilities, not about cell phones, not about PDAs -- then they simply won't buy what we're selling. Also, if someone just wants ONE thing -- say, WAP transcoding -- they will go for "point solutions", a single way to do HTML -> WAP transformations, instead of a general solution. This means that the the "spin-off" benefits (more accessible to people with disabilities for example) are never available, because the approach we use _does_ require a "large will" to follow it through. (For example: You have to be willing to design a lynx-friendly version for your scripting stuff. Most web developers these days don't even use NOSCRIPT, and if they won't make that effort, we can't do a thing for 'em!) --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com> Technical Developer Liaison Reef North America Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network Tel +1 949-567-7006 ________________________________________ BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL. ________________________________________ http://www.reef.com
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