- From: Section 508.US <tagi11@cox.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:25:32 -0500
- To: "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org>, "WAI-IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
As usual, a disability organization that don't give a flip about accessibility........ pegglegg ############################################## Michael Van Randen Web Accessibility and Usability Consultant 1236 Greystone Lane Pensacola Florida, 32514 850-206-4715 tagi11@cox.net "Counting users on the Internet is like counting the number of people using wheelchairs who are inside an inaccessible building. It was once thought that since no wheelchair users were in the building, ramps were not needed. " UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY Copyright 1999-2003 Cynthia D. Waddell JD Executive Director of ICDRI http://www.icdri.org/CynthiaW/the_digital_divide.htm Access not exclusion ############################################# ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Clark" <joeclark@joeclark.org> To: "WAI-IG" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 4:42 PM Subject: Accessible Web design for the deaf: NOT I received this spam today: > <http://www.deafplanet.com/> > > Greetings, > > Thank you for your interest in deafplanet.com. The project has recently > launched at the 14th Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf in > Montreal, and www.deafplanet.com <http://www.deafplanet.com/> is now > live to the world. > [...] > If you have any questions about deafplanet.com, don't hesitate to > contact us at contact@deafplanet.com. The site will not even load in Mozilla, Safari, IE 5.2 on Macintosh or in Lynx. In every case, the programmers have decided that I don't have the current Flash plug-in (in the three relevant cases, I do), thus have no right to enter the premises. "You don't have the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player. This web site makes use of MacromediaŽ Flash TM software. You have an old version of Macromedia Flash Player that cannot play the content we've created. Why not download and install the latest version now? It will only take a moment." Or forever, in this case, since I *do* have the latest Flash. (Not the 7.0 beta, admittedly.) Bit of an infinite loop there, I'm afraid. I love Web accessibility for the deaf. By the way, *how* much did this site cost again? <http://news.google.com/news?q=deafplanet> -- Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org Author, _Building Accessible Websites_ <http://joeclark.org/access/> | <http://joeclark.org/book/>
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