- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 07:06:54 -0500
- To: "Scott Luebking" <phoenixl@sonic.net>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
I was answering part of the message not all of it. There are a lot of assumptions being made here and I was addressing one of them. Accessibility in the broadest senxe is not an absolute target nor is it absolutely obtainable but a couple of things I know. If one follows the guidelines for the end result no matter how that end result is achieved and if that end result validates and if propper human judgement is employed, than the accessibility as a result of that effort is vastly improved. This is not rocket science. Creating an accessible end product under most circumstances confining that accessibility to what the guidelines document was meant to do no matter how it is achieved will serve the purpose. A multi-model end is a fair way to achieve this. We have enough anechdotal andother evidence now to answer all the questions about this topic going back several years and the original poster should do some reading to see what questions should really be asked. Following this thread you end up with my post because the rest has already been covered in one way or another and As I said, we serve the technology so that it can serve us. I will go further to say that if we ever get to the point where the technology truly serves us as the poser of the question asks, we will become subserviant to the technology which may not be a bad thing depending on how much benevolence we build into it. I would not want to live in that world however. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com> To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com>; "Scott Luebking" <phoenixl@sonic.net>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 12:12 AM Subject: Re: Multiple versions of a web page At 11:31 AM -0500 12/23/01, David Poehlman wrote: >It boins down to a simple fact. We have validators because they help us >all play on the same play ground. If you don't want to play on that >play ground than don't do html. know that this does not cover it all >but there is no question in most of our minds as to which serves which >and that is why the validators exist. I don't see why validity demands a single HTML version be delivered. Multiple versions of a page are good because they allow for usability to be delivered, not just accessibility -- and even the accessibility of many pages is in question because HTML is limited both in theory and in application. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Web Accessibility Expert-for-hire http://kynn.com/resume January Web Accessibility eCourse http://kynn.com/+d201
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