- From: Juan Ulloa <julloa@bcc.ctc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:40:42 -0700
- To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
You are right, your point is not moot (some what irrelevant, but still not moot). If we are ignoring the digital medium of the web in this argument, a Braille document is as accessible to a sighted user as the same document written in Spanish, Italian or Asomtavruli. In the written world, it is probably easier to write the document in English (if you are in the U.S.) and hire a reader for the user who might need it on tape. So even though the document is written in a non-accessible format, the organization can make it accessible. On the same lines, if we are talking about the digital world, writing a website using a different language is not an accessibility issue, it's a usability issue. There is markup to tell web browsers the language of the document and changes in language within the document (Sorry, I don't think you can do Asomtavruli). And yes, if you access a website that is written in a language that you do not speak will cause you to have usability barriers, the similar to the sighted person trying to read a Braille document. Juan C. Ulloa [ x2487 ] > > no, a sighted user can see and feel braille, there is nothing that a > blind > user can do about images on the web. > > Johnnie Apple Seed > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Juan Ulloa" <julloa@bcc.ctc.edu> > To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:38 AM > Subject: 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 > >
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