- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 11:36:44 -0500
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
multiple serve means two things. it means the same site served in multiple ways depending on the server/client communication / a user choice as presented or a non parallel site non parallel meaning that all the sites are developped independantly using different emphasis such as one flashy, one text only and one not flashy with everything else but accessible to those not requiring a text only site of which there are few to none. the last one is over used. it is the cop out that many sites have because of time or resources or know how or whatever to making a site "accessible" that doesn't have to have a separate site. it can be a legitimate way of doing things but if possible, it should be done either via user choice or via synchronous means. As I and others on this list have said many times before, the web is not tv, it is not news paper or a magazine and not even a book but it is composed at its best a set of hyper text which means that documents are linked to one another in a hyper/independant way such that one can be presented with the material but be able to order that material to her liking. I know we will have to live with the evolution of the "web" but it is precisely that "evolution" that is causing so many of the problems we face today. The other thing the "web" does is provide lots of connectivity to different things and ways of interfacing with them. I like forms for instance because they can be quite useful as a means of interacting with components of the web and with the individuals who have something to provide through the web whether it be different content, a different set of documents or a product shipped to your door. This and more can be done in web style if only we view the web as the web and not as something else. I am beginning to think that we need something for the web such as that which is being done with pedestrians vs motorists and sidewalks. Standards are now being developped that will make pedestrian travel easier and they include considerations of all forms of pedestrian travel whether with a cane, a guide dog or a wheel chair. This though is somewhat what the wcag tried and is still trying to do. There are other documents either finished or in progress at the wai which attempt to build on the work of wcag in accomplishing the same thing. Again, I urge you to read the documents at trace. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Luebking" <phoenixl@sonic.net> To: <phoenixl@sonic.net>; <poehlman1@home.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 11:16 AM Subject: Re: FWD: CHI-WEB: Amazon's version for the Visually Impaired Hi, I don't quite understand what you are saying. I'm not quite sure what you mean about "multiple serves" and the "correct way". I'm also not clear on what you mean by: "because of insistance on having the web be a different medium than it was originally designed" Also, what do you mean the multiple serve is over used? Scott > again, depending on what you want to do with the web, you can use either > multiple serves in the correct way or a "one size fits all" senario. > Most of the former is done because of insistance on having the web be a > different medium than it was originally designed to be which is fine but > the multiple service approach is also over used.
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