Greg,
I am a strong proponent of developing and implementing accessibility
guidelines. The ICANN election has simply overwhelmed the available
resources - but I think the follow-on study absolutely should take into
account accessibility concerns.
vint
At 08:02 AM 7/31/2000 -0700, Greg Skinner wrote:
>Lloyd Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > William Allen Simpson wrote:
>
> >> The users of the Internet have access to several free browsers that
> >> support frames on a dozen platforms. Folks that are unable to use
> >> the Internet are not an appropriate electorate. Lazy kindergartners
> >> are not the target audience for ICANN membership.
>
> > I do hope this isn't the official ICANN view. I imagine that
> > a disability discrimination lawsuit would soon follow.
>
> > how many text-to-speech audio browsers support frames well?
>
>Support for the disabled does seem to be a concern in some quarters;
>for example, see
>
>http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Browsers/Lynx/
>
>The secure registration page requires https, which isn't available in lynx
>as far as I know.
>
>I am wondering if it might make sense going forward to allow an email
>submission. Email is for the most part a queued delivery mechanism, so it
>is not necessary for the user to resubmit an html form if the server is
>busy.
>
>--gregbo
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