RE: Ability taxonomy bh

Hi Al,

I would suggest we work from either a functional viewpoint or from a 
preferences viewpoint and not from a disability etiology.

That is that the client say

"cannot view graphics"
or
"prefer that you send text only"
or
"prefer that you send
- text only
- or voice enabled applets


and not that the client send
"blind" or "low vision"


the former has much more application beyond disability - and will extend to 
hand held and nomadic devices.

The latter doesn't really help much anyway since people who are blind can 
have very different skills and different browser / reader capabilities.

I'll be short - but if what I'm saying isn't clear. Drop me a line.

Thanks


Gregg

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Al Gilman [SMTP:asgilman@access.digex.net]
Sent:	Wednesday, May 21, 1997 11:38 AM
To:	WAI Working Group
Cc:	Paul Coelho
Subject:	Re: Ability taxonomy bh

Recently there was a rough consensus on the list in favor of
special-need descriptors being sent from client to server as
part of format negotiation.

I think that we should make "the taxonomy of abilities and
special needs" that these message attributes employ a development
item, and that we should try to rope the doctors mentioned below
into this task.  Paul has contributed on this point on the
dev-access mailing list.

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Al Gilman

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From: "P. Coelco" <pcoelho@u.washington.edu>
To: Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net>
Subject: Re: Ability taxonomy

Al,
	Sure. Thank you for considering me. Dennis Anson may also be
interested (dennis@u.washington.edu).
						pcc
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Al Gilman wrote:

> Paul,
>
> In the Web Access Initiative the idea has come up for some
> special-need identifiers that would be useful in characterizing
> how web sites should serve this particular client.
>
> This is an issue where I think you have something to contribute
> based on your posts to dev-access.
>
> May I mention your name to the Intiative people as someone
> they should talk to to help them set up their working reference
> taxonomy of abilities and special needs?
>
> --
> Al Gilman
>

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