RE: FWD: CHI-WEB: Amazon's version for the Visually Impaired

My understanding of the 2.0 Guidlines were that they did not apply at all to
HTML.  HTML was covered by the 1.0 guidelines and the HTML 4 standards are
now fixed and no more work is to be done on them. As I understand it the
provision that text only sites should be a last resort still applies to HTML
sites.
THe 2.0 guidelines are designed to cover the changed circumstance that XML
is the current way to present content and Presentation is separated by such
technologies as Cascading Style Sheets.
This means that we cannot be refering to "one set of HTML code".

Harry Woodrow

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Sent: Saturday, 15 December 2001 9:31 AM
To: phoenixl@sonic.net; poehlman1@home.com; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: FWD: CHI-WEB: Amazon's version for the Visually Impaired


Hi,

Again, just to make sure we have the same understanding, by "one delivery",
do mean the one URL or do you mean "one set of HTML code"?  My
interpretation
of the consensus item is a single URL which will send send different
versions of HTML code.

Does universal design for a web page mean "one size fits all"?  Or does
universal design mean that everyone's needs are addressed?  Which is
more important?

I also believe that it is important to start with the user understanding
his/her characteristics, abilities and needs.

Scott


> my preference is that the content be developped in such a way and
> delivered in such a way as to benefit all with one delivery.  That is
> what I consider to be the end result of the universal design process in
> this case.  Are we there?  In some ways, yes.  Will we ever get there?
> I doubt it so we need to do complicated things like have software built
> that reduces the functional limitations to the web by redistributing the
> information based on some amount of hopefully correct enterpretation of
> that which is percented or a complex solution that has a server looking
> at everyone coming down the pipe to determine the best fit for the data
> with that user agent and any number of other stragegies.  If you want to
> carry this universal design process to its logical conclusion, you start
> with the user and work outward to what is being delivered and that
> includes rethinking the design of the very system that in many cases
> causes some of the most difficult functional limitations to occur.

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