- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:56:29 -0800
- To: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@home.com>, "RUST Randal" <RRust@COVANSYS.com>, "WAI \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 5:49 PM -0500 1/14/02, David Poehlman wrote: >but opera is not usable by my assistive technology, we have a tight it >shop and it is solely based on the netscape solution. We are not >allowed to put ie on our servers and have been told that this is not >going to change for the near term. There is no wiggle room in a lot of >cases so this issue cannot be escaped through any seeming hole in the >possibilities of change. The only way out is to shrug and say, "well, >only a hand full of people use netscape that matter anyway and they'll >just have to cope.". Wow, it sucks to be you. But, you see, the problem here is not the coding of my site. The problem continues to be Netscape 4's poor coding, and then that's compounded by the coding of Opera and/or your assistive technology, and then made even worse by the policies of your workplace. It's unreasonable to expect every web developer on the planet to make special compensation for the facts that (a) Netscape 4 sucks, (b) Opera and/or your AT sucks [or at least don't speak a common API], and (c) your boss sucks. That's not our problem, as web developers. Sorry. --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 Forthcoming: Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours
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