- From: <alex@shelter.nu>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 01:29:58 -0500 (CDT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Joe Clark wrote: > But for most people they don't have a choice. Even if it's through > ignorance or fear of something different they still don't have the choice. > It's time to get pragmatic Joe and realise that we have to code for > *every* combo of user agent, platform and disability and not just the > ones that we feel like. It's not that I don't agree, but ... umm, I don't _quite_ agree. They always have a choice, but because the choice might be hard (in any degree of that word), it is stamped as "no choice." A company policy *can* be changed, a different browser *can* be installed, and so forth. Fear of a choice or even ignorace still leaves choices. (Exempt from this is of course a lot of disability related issues) Anyways, about designing for everybody; yes, bravo, and all that, but since you mentioned pragmatic Joe, he's not going to do it. It is for a lot of people a question of economics more than that of doing it right, and the question of economics doesn't merge between "design for them all" and "design by standards." The standards, if we follow them, *will* also speak the language of economics, and getting people to understand this (and hence get rid of the bad apples) should be a priority to us all. humbly, Alex
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