- From: Wayne Dick <waynedick@knowbility.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:05:57 -0800
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I have been thinking about this article a lot. I strikes that I have seen this transition many times in the information technology field. When a new technology emerges there is what my friend Tom Jewett calls the preachy phase. During that period a lot of material on how to understand and use the technology is accompanied by a sermon on why this new approach is necessary and better. We saw this with early structured programming and again with object oriented programming. It happened when relational databases overtook network and hierarchical databases. The zeal of a new technology is always accompanied with a new data religion. Accessibility is doubly charged, added to the zeal of a new technology is the very real moral imperative of providing access to everyone. This elevates preachy to a new level. In the "Official definition" article, the author points outs that we have made the case for why access technology is needed. She simply points out that it is now time to implement how to do this in an organic way. It is really a remarkable article. Wayne
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