- From: Denis Anson <danson@miseri.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:34:00 -0400
- To: "'James Thatcher'" <thatch@us.ibm.com>, <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Jim, I think one of the cruel realities of the Web is that it is the ultimate democratic environment, where anyone with access to an ISP can post pages. As a result, a lot of the people posting pages simply don't know what they are doing, and don't understand why what they do doesn't work. Obviously, text input with no way to submit isn't good design (unless there was a magic way to make things happen). But there are a lot of bad designers out there. When we talk about web accessibility, we cannot make design coercive. At best, we can suggest ways to make accessible design as easy (or nearly so) as inaccessible design. As "Lint" like tools become more common, perhaps the design issues will take care of themselves, but I am not sanguine on that topic. Denis -----Original Message----- From: w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ua-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of James Thatcher Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 11:14 AM To: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org Subject: Text input with no submit I found sitew with a search text input field and no submit button. I can find no reference in either author guidelines or user agent guidelines about this situation. Any comments, both on user agent and authoring. Jim Thatcher IBM Special Needs http://www.ibm.com/sns 512-838-0432 thatch@us.ibm.com
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