- From: Juan Ulloa <julloa@bcc.ctc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 07:38:40 -0700
- To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
David Poehlman said: > So, if braille is inaccessible > to the sighted, than, it follows that a site that is unusable to a blind > person using assistive technology even though it is coded with all > accessibility techniques in play leaving out all the checks that cannot > be > done automatically is also inaccessible since as with the braille, the > sighted can read it with their eyes and even with their fingers if they > are > capable of doing so and the assistive technology user can access all the > information on the web page, it's just not meaningfull or usefull which > gives her the feeling that it is not accessible. That depends; is there Braille reading software that can read the content to a sighted user? So, in that sense, Braille text is *inaccessible* to a sighted user the same way an image containing text is *inaccessible* to a blind user. The point is moot. Juan
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