- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:26:41 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> The fact that the problem lies with using an older browser, rather than The other thing that tends to be special with the web is that one has to continually spend on new hardware in order to stand still. If ones is blocked from a web site which is not intrinsically about flashy multimedia (nature of the service defence) one has to pay the costs of the advertiser being able to present a you with a flashy advertisement that helps you no more than a simple one (and probably less). It would be a bit like providing wheel chair ramps with rails for the wheels, but no continuous deck then moving the rails as the fashion in wheel spacings changes. With newsprint advertisements, one may have to pay more for the product to support the flashy printing, but you don't generally need to buy new equipment every three years in order to be able use the advertisement at all. (I'm taking it, for the moment, that the certain aspects of flashy design make things difficult to comprehend - early web pages had a very youth culture feel - is covered by other disabilities.)
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