- From: David Poehlman <poehlman1@home.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 16:46:29 -0500
- To: "Scott Luebking" <phoenixl@sonic.net>, <burke@ucla.edu>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
yes, many mistakes have been made but than again, there are few if any models out there to work from. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Luebking" <phoenixl@sonic.net> To: <burke@ucla.edu>; <phoenixl@sonic.net>; <poehlman1@home.com> Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 4:12 PM Subject: Re: Multiple versions of a web page Hi, Actually, some of the usability people I know are pretty amazed at how poorly designed the usability of the access technology is designed. The decisions made often cannot be excused by the technology being built on top of what is already been badly designed. The mistakes were more lkely to have been made because the access technology programmers (like most programmers) are unaware of usability principles and techniques. (Many people outside of the usability world don't have the experience to see how that happened.) Scott > I agree with statement number 1 but statement #2 takes the view that the > technology is being designed from the ground up which is rarely true. > Accessibility technology is almost always layed ontop of or forced into > something that is usually already badly designed.
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