- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@crosslink.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:49:34 -0500
- To: <gv@trace.wisc.edu>, "GL - WAI Guidelines WG \(E-mail\)" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 11:49 PM 3/14/2000 -0600, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote: >Anne, if I missed your point - then I sincerely apologize for making you >read all this. I'm interested in your thoughts or reactions. If I did >miss the boat, could you post back an example of a specific guideline that >you are interested in seeing? Maybe that will help me. > I don't seem to have the skills to write a guideline that expresses the needs of "all the above" of your examples. But I can share thoughts and experiences, and hope someone else in the group can turn them into the necessary words for a guideline. >Is there something that you think we should do besides: >1) making sure all text is electronic (so that it can be read to the user by >their browser) The popular browsers do not read as yet. If they did, this would be a fine solution for some/many, but it isn't here yet. Browsers that read to a user are not typically (if any) user-friendly to ordinary users. And browsers which work with standard sound cards don't seem to be commonly available even in the nearby cities. Perhaps I've looked in the wrong places. >2) encouraging the use of graphics on a page and I would suggest requiring the use of graphics on a page, not for "style" but for content. By graphics, I mean not only pictures, but diagrams, tables and all the other alternates to text that are typically used in textbooks and decent encyclopedia. I know this is problematical, but I feel it is doable, and a good solution. >3) keeping the language as simple as possible I suspect this one needs to be in BOLD and HIGHLIGHTED, and put in the highest priority! In the past few months when I tried to find sites for use by young children studying common "Famous Americans", I grumbled often over the unnecessarily wordiness of many sites. As I said in an earlier post, out of searches of perhaps hundreds of sites, only two were actually useful for my young pre-readers. This isn't technical information on thermophysics! Thanks for the gracious response. Looks like I'll be grounded yet tomorrow with this "crud". Anne Anne L. Pemberton http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Pav/Academy1 http://www.erols.com/stevepem/Homeschooling apembert@crosslink.net Enabling Support Foundation http://www.enabling.org
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