- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 15:21:32 -0500
- To: Kathy Hewitt <kathyhe@microsoft.com>, "'Al Gilman'" <asgilman@access.digex.net>, w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
If you were going to do it for accessibility portions, how much harder is it to do for the rest of the documentation? Jon At 01:02 PM 6/15/98 -0700, Kathy Hewitt wrote: >Then maybe instead of putting the entire online documentation under the >umbrella of providing it in plain text, it should just be those parts >relating to accessibility? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Al Gilman [mailto:asgilman@access.digex.net] >Sent: Monday, June 15, 1998 12:54 PM >To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org >Subject: Re: UA documentation > > >to follow up on what Kathy Hewitt said: > >> If the online documentation is accessible, then it shouldn't be >> necessary to have it in plain text. > >There may be a Catch-22 here. Who is the documentation of the >Web client for? Someone who doesn't fully understand how to >use the Web client. To be fit for use by the intended audience, >maybe the Web client documentation should not be hidden behind >the Web client UI? > >The standards for the user's safety net are appropriately more >severe [as regards accessibility] than the standards for general >Web literature. Just as fire escapes have to be more fireproof. > >Al > Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: 217-244-5870 Fax: 217-333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund http://www.als.uiuc.edu/InfoTechAccess
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