- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:58:26 +0200
- To: "John Foliot" <foliot@wats.ca>, "'Patrick H. Lauke'" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, "'wai-ig list'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Lachlan Hunt'" <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:26:15 +0200, John Foliot <foliot@wats.ca> wrote: > Patrick H. Lauke wrote: >> http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20070701#l-227 Which was depressing reading. It shows there is still a serious disconnect between some of the people who, having worked in the WHAT-WG and then the HTML group for some time, have a relatively high degree of influence over the HTML group, and people who really understand and work with practical accessibility problems. So there are two ways to go. One is to assume that each side of the discussion is carried by people who are intelligent, care about what they are doing, and try to understand what it is about a given topic that doesn't satisfy the needs, and what would do so. I understand the tendency (on both sides) towards the other approach, but being rude hasn't so far achieved much except alienating important communities from each other. At the moment it is depressing to be involved in this stuff. Maybe we can lift the level of dialogue, respect, trust, and genuine cooperation to the point where this work becomes useful, instead of just sucking time and resources. Because it is important. cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software: Standards Group hablo español - je parle français - jeg lærer norsk chaals@opera.com Catch up: Speed Dial http://opera.com
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