RE: the ramp to nowhere:

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

Received on Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:40:17 UTC