- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:03:10 -0600
- To: "Denis Anson" <danson@miseri.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Denis, I apologize for giving the wrong number today and assume you called the announced number. We discussed the WHO/NIH definitions in the CG group telecon yesterday and today in the UA telecon. The CG group felt that the WHO/NIH definitions were based on a medical model of disability that focused on impairment. The more contemporary use of disability is as a person with different capabilites and emphesizes inclusion into society. This later definition is what is meant in the current use of "disability" in the WAI guidelines. It was also stated in the CG that the WHO definitions are not welcomed by most disability groups and that we would run into touble with them if we started using impairment, instead of disability in the documents. So today at the meeting we decided to not use the WHO/NIH definitions and stay with the terminology we are currently using. Can you live with this? Thanks, Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Chair, W3C WAI User Agent Working Group Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services College of Applied Life Studies 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 WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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