- From: david poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:18:36 -0400
- To: "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@uiuc.edu>, "W3C WAI-UAWG" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
Jon, I am in total agreement with you here. A web application that is designed for an gui environment that is served up to the entire internet will benefit only a small portion of the community as a whole. Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Gunderson" <jongund@uiuc.edu> To: "W3C WAI-UAWG" <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:10 AM Subject: Web application discussion At yesterdays teleconference we were discussing web applications. I just want to point out that I am not against web applications, in fact I think they can truely offer people with disabilities more options for using information technology. I guess the major point that I wanted to make is that I think a web application have a different "look and feel" than a GUI application, since the technology is different. There seems to be a desire to make web applications "look and feel" like GUI applications, even though they are different technologies. One of the importance differences is interoperability and not designing web applications to be only usable in graphical browsers with author supplied styling information enabled. Jon Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 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://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/ WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund
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