- From: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 05:07:58 +0100
- To: "T. V. Raman" <raman@adobe.com>
- Cc: Ka-Ping Yee <s-ping@orange.cv.tottori-u.ac.jp>, Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com>, www-style@w3.org, html-erb@w3.org, www-html@w3.org, raman@mv.us.adobe.com, thomasre@microsoft.com
"T. V. Raman" writes: | Ka-Ping is right --in the world of free browsers users can *demand* | not plead. | | To cite an example, I'm blind and use a talking computer. A couple of | months ago, I was (temporarily) thrilled to see an announcement coming | out of MicroSoft saying that their new browser would be accessible to | blind users using screen-access programs --the almost total | inaccessibility of NetScape has been a serious problem. Just to echo this - my girlfriend is partially sighted (no snide remarks, please :-) and is quite happy using plain text email, but can't make any sense out of Web pages that are a mass of in-lined advertisments, in-lined backgrounds and coloured text, fonts, frames, applets and assorted multimedia crud^H^H^H^Hcontent. So, it's heartening to hear that at least one browser vendor is thinking seriously about the problem of access. I can almost forgive you for DOS and Windows*. Almost. If you're (associated with) a browser vendor which isn't particularly bothered about minority cases like hers - just bear in mind that there's a large market which has similar difficulties. They're called *senior citizens*, and you may even live to be one yourself! Martin
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