2009/7/8 Dennis Lapcewich <dlapcew...@fs.fed.us>: > >>> Dennis Lapcewich wrote: >>> >>> While I agree with your general sentiment, I have to say I find >>> >>> the assertion that all people aged 35-40 or more are "for all >>> >>> intents and purposes [...] web disabled and [...] in immediate >>> >>> need of web accessibility" questionable, to say the least. >>> >>> > > I did not write the above. Please do not attribute to me another's comments > in this accessibility thread. Please make sure you attribute correctly so > as to avoid a misquote, at best, or disingenuous intent, at worst. My > original comment concerned itself with a medical condition that in time, > literally affects 100 percent of the human population. While onset of > presbyopia is often described in the literature in the 40s and later, it is > not unheard of to have symptoms beginning at age 35-40.
Dennis is quite right - I wrote the quoted "While I agree with your general sentiment..." sentence. Have to be careful with those indents and attributions. I stand by my comment, by the way: while I strongly agree that accessibility is a core aspect of web design, extrapolating "it's not unheard of to have symptoms beginning at age 35-40" to "[all people aged 35-40 or more are] for all intents and purposes [...] web disabled and [...] in immediate need of web accessibility" is clearly overstating the case. It's unnecessary, as the case for good accessibility is very strong anyway, and only gets weakened by making exaggerated claims. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
