- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:19:20 -0700
- To: Ben Godfrey <afternoon@uk2.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 03:28 PM, Ben Godfrey wrote: > Please try to accept that the web we have is a visually rich web for > more reasons than designers liking fancy schmancy pixels. This list > should be about helping those who want to create pretty pages and not > just pure functionality. After all, the web is about people. If it was > about computers, this list wouldn't exist. You should be careful about equating "people" with "visually rich web"-- as there are plenty of people who use the Web constantly who have never seen a visual Web page, ever. People with disabilities are -- understandably, based on millennia of continuing discrimination -- sensitive when you assume that they are not "people." --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain http://idyllmtn.com Author, CSS in 24 Hours http://cssin24hours.com Inland Anti-Empire Blog http://blog.kynn.com/iae Shock & Awe Blog http://blog.kynn.com/shock
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