- From: Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:43:41 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
"Access should not be browser dependent" is not the same as "accessibility for persons who have disabilities"! Whether I have a disability or not, if I don't have the proprietary software to access some IE or MS Office content, I can't access it. If I do have a disability and I do have the proprietary software, and the software is accessible and the content is accessible, then I can access it. Why confuse the accessibility access issue with proprietary access issues. Access and accessibility are not the same thing. It's like saying I can't access the internet [HTML] without a browser - duh! Or worse, saying I can't access electronic text files with out a screen reader - double duh! Regards, Phill
Received on Monday, 22 October 2001 10:44:13 UTC