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Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 7:22 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] accessibilty and responsibility
Hi all,
Jumping in on all these architectural analogies... nobody seems to have
made this point: ultimately EVERYONE has some level of responsibility,
since everyone
I don't know how to word this, but here goes...
We have the W3C's WCAG and Section 508...however, WCAG is just a set of
guidelines; Section 508 applies to US federal agencies. I'm not asking
that we legislate this (heaven forbid!) for the Web at large, but it
seems there isn't yet a *widely
Ok, I see your point here, but I'm the web designer for a company. Most
of our customers probably wouldn't know what a 'browser' is and think
that the 'e' is the is only way to 'download the internet'. I can't
simply forget my customers browsers without alienating them as well,
because they
Alan Trick wrote:
Ok, I see your point here, but I'm the web designer for a company.
Most of our customers probably wouldn't know what a 'browser' is and
think that the 'e' is the is only way to 'download the internet'. I
can't simply forget my customers browsers without alienating them
as
: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:52 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] accessibilty and responsibility
Hi all,
I'm coming to this very much as a newbie, so be gentle with your
response: I feel that, in many ways, we as web designers are getting the
short straw by being asked to counteract
At 10:37 AM -0600 2/10/05, Christopher M Kelly wrote:
Possibly so, but is an architect being given the short straw by being
required to include ramps and elevators in the design of a building?
The issue is to force companies to make
software/hardware better. Something that is
physically
With respect Christopher, I think you're missing the point. To take your
analogy further, it seems to me that making web designers emsolelyem
responsible for dealing with accessibility is like telling architects
they're off the hook with regard to ramps etc, and getting the decorators to
carry the
designer wrote:
What exactly is the position?
Opera's zoom-feature is nice - and useful, but comes more as an addition
provided in that browser. IE6 can also zoom pages, but not that
user-friendly. We may want browsers to have useful features like this,
but that's not what we want first and most
Giving users a reasonable time to upgrade to the latest-- and hopefully
best-- version of the browser of their choice, and then simply
forgetting to code for the older versions, is one way we can push (a
little) where it matters.
Ding, ding, ding... we have a winner!
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Tom Livingston
Hi all,
Jumping in on all these architectural analogies... nobody seems to
have made this point: ultimately EVERYONE has some level of
responsibility, since everyone is and will remain involed.
Let's continue the analogy, for a new building:
1) The government sets out physical access
Hi all,
I'm coming to this very much as a newbie, so be gentle with your response:
I feel that, in many ways, we as web designers are getting the short straw
by being asked to counteract the shortcomings of the browser/PC people,
rather than the other way around. For example, Opera has a really
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