[html4all] Accessible to whom (or to which groups) ?

[Gez Lemon]

Harry Loots wrote:
<quote>
interesting discussion - yet throughout i keep wondering....

Do people with disabilities want to be singled out? Or would they simply
wanted to be treated like those of who do not suffer some disability or other?

Making a website accessible is just that - if it's accessible it can
be used by all person. To mention people with disabilities is to treat
people with disabilities as if they are a separate entity in our
world.
</quote>

Of course people with disabilities don't want to be singled out. In an
ideal world, people with disabilities wouldn't be singled out.
Unfortunately, today's web isn't very accessible to people with
disabilities, and it's not all about access for all. Some (most) of
the serious barriers relate directly to people with disabilities
(missing alternate text for non-text objects, missing abels for form
controls, no association between data cells and header cells,
missing/ambiguous semantics, and so on). Some of these are issues that
can be overcome by people without disabilities, but can cause
significant barriers to people using assistive technology.

It's great to be politically correct, but that huge mammal with
massive ears and a trunk in the middle of the room is an elephant.




Gez


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