- From: <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
- To: jonathan@openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)
- Cc: kynn@idyllmtn.com, www-tag@w3.org
Jonathan wrote: > <statement><quote><!CDATA![[ > <kynn@idyllmtn.com> wrote: > > > > Why? Because arbitrary XML is, to the UA, worse than simply plain text. > > It provides an unknown structure but the user -- especially the user with > > special needs -- likely has no way of making sense of that structure in > > any rational way. > ]]></quote> > <there/><is/><no/><reason/><to/><be/><so/><dogmatic/> > <nor/><can/><you/><so/><easily/><predict/><the/><intelligence/><or/><lack/>< > thereof/><of/><your/><readers/> > Jonathan > </statement> That's very cute, Jonathan, but you can't assume that people with disabilities are going to rely on reading source code, plus it reflects a basic misunderstanding of XML concepts if you expect all meaning to be inferrable purely from the names of elements. --Kynn
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