On Feb 7, 2007, at 7:10 PM, Matthew Smith wrote:
Sadly, Professor Wesch didn't mention accessiblity once.
... which in turn is a sad reflection on the importance of
accessibility to the population at large. To the average user (as if
there actually were such a person), accessibility boils down to
whether a site works, in which case it's taken for granted, or it
doesn't, in which case they will leave in disgust. For those with
special needs it's different of course. Unfortunately the thought
given by the population at large to those with special needs is
probably limited to irritation at not being able to use handicapped
parking when the lot is full.
While I'm sure everyone on this list is committed to accessibility,
we are a minority, and I'm sure we all have our war stories of
battles lost. But it improves bit by bit, both in terms of acceptance
of the idea of accessibility, and the tools to make it happen.
On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Christian Montoya wrote:
He didn't mention XHTML either, or CSS... makes me wonder if there are
really people out there who know about HTML and XML but not the
rest...???
Well, of course! For any field at all you will find people who are
not practitioners and have varying depths of knowledge. Hey this
guy's an anthropologist! And one of his points is that content
creation for the web is increasingly independent of the technology of
presentation. Also "knowing about" isn't the same as
"knowing" (thankfully, or most of us wouldn't be earning a living!),
and in fact he may know about XHTML, CSS, perhaps even more arcane
web technologies, but didn't feel it was germane to this particular
presentation.
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