- From: Claus Thoegersen <cltrar@login.dknet.dk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:30:11 -0100
- To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
In article <199808141356.IAA20198@staff1.cso.uiuc.edu>, Jon Gunderson <jongund@staff.uiuc.edu> wrote: >Response to Claus Thøgersen. >We need to keep the mind the naive user. Do you mean that the possibility of reconfiguring keys placement will be a threat to the naive user? If this is the case then you can simply make it hard to make these adjustments, e.g. require the user to use a special commandline swich to load an alternative configuration, and "hide" the help topics that discusses these possibilities under advanced settings. JG: With a reconfigurable strategy or >possible recommendation, we need also to address how this will impact user >knowledge of the navigation features and default configurations. Most users will never know about these posibilities because they do not need them. Users that want them e.g. because they are power users and do explore advanced user interface, or some disabled that know about these features because they are instructed from other disabled or special computer trainers. With the use of cascading stylesheets or advanced settings that turns changes browser behavior in regards to pictures, sound, scripts and many other things, you already have browsers that behaves differently with different settings. If we do not want to conform all users to a often low accessability standard, a standard that all other users and application developpers will reject, it seems as the only sollution is to make almost everything configurable. >Jon > >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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