- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:17:26 +0100
- To: Jon Ferraiolo <jon.ferraiolo@adobe.com>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org, Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
Jon, first let me state that I am not in a position to respond to the original thread. However could you please expand on this reply* which might seem highly offensive to some. I imagine that you wouldn't wish to be perceived as considering that pre-literate population has no right, desire or ability to publish. Yet it is evidently clear that at the present time they don't have the appropriate tools and mechanisms. perhaps you could describe how you personally, or Adobe are engaging with the community of 'amateurs' and the pre-literate to meet their needs. SVG as currently designed by W3 and expressed in the Adobe viewer presents many accessibility barriers. It is by engaging with the whole community that these issues will most easily be addressed. people who are pre-literate face many problems engaging with the web. SVG and sXBL have the potential to help, however this means everyone, and I mean everyone engaging with those less able than themselves, in a particular field or endeavour. Otherwise, history demonstrates that 'Professionals' publish a whole bunch of stuff that isn't accessible to the greater population. regards Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.peepo.co.uk "It's easy to use" irc://freenode/accessibility *On 29 Sep 2004, at 17:59, Jon Ferraiolo wrote: I think it is much more important to provide a robust facility for professional developers who create robust components with all of the appropriate mutation event handlers to take care of things like insertion and deletion of LI elements than it is to create an "easy-to-use" mechanism which might allow amateurs to create components which do not take care of insertion and deletion and thus are not robust.
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