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At 07:12 PM 1/21/00 +0100, Stefano Debenedetti wrote: >I beg your pardon but I still don't understand what the point was....:-o >Could you please explain me what Mr. Charles McCathieNevile meant about >industry perception on accessibility? There is a perception in some portions of the industry, as displayed on this list, that only people with significant deficits of one form or another -- those that are too 'poor' to upgrade a system, are disabled, or confined to university dumb terminals, or whatever -- that only those people are the ones that don't use the latest and greatest systems. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the not only DO people outside of those demographics use less than the latest system/browser, but that many do it by choice (the highly debatable "that's just because vt100 terminals are next to the window" or not). Bottom line point: assumptions about users needs/desires based on the developer or industry's own habits is almost always a bad viewpoint. Ann --- Just Released! - HTML BY Example Now shipping - Mastering XML Also in print: Effective Web Design: Master the Essentials Founder, WebGeek Communications http://www.webgeek.com Vice President-Finance, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Director, HWG Online Education http://www.hwg.org/services/classes xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Unsubscribe by posting to majordom@i... the message unsubscribe xml-dev (or) unsubscribe xml-dev your-subscribed-email@your-subscribed-address Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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