- From: Steve Carter <steve@juggler.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:32:32 -0000
- To: <sethmr@bellatlantic.net>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
From: "Seth Rothberg" <sethmr@bellatlantic.net> > On Friday 22 February 2002 04:49 pm, Ineke van der Maat wrote: > > What I tried to express is that when this is a faq for people interested > > in accessible websites, it must give the most common, simple terms that > > people use for their sites and can find in their books http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-facilitate-comprehension 14.1 Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for a site's content. [Priority 1] :-) > Ineke, I think you are exactly right here. What isn't right, I believe, is > the kind of rude pedantry that corrects terminology before or without > answering a perfectly understandable, if miss-stated, question. I second this, as a newbie to the list I encountered this feeling once or twice. Had I been less bull-headedly stubborn [ :-) ] I would have just gone away again and never learned about accessibility. As academics debating issues, 'robust criticism' is appropriate, but as an information source in a public forum, or as accessibility evangelists, we have a duty to be more accommodating.
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