- From: Jonathan Chetwynd <jay@peepo.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:23:52 +0100
- To: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <unagi69@concentric.net>, "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Cc: "Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines Mailing List" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <00d801bf9f02$e7286b40$e6429fd4@myserver>
Re:the need to cater to individual needs: i think we can all agree that if we had to read the music in order to enjoy it most of us would be excluded. The photo of a pop star, the tune, the sheet, and the lyric all have uses. WAI and many other site are predominantly text based. This does not mean it is accessible. I for one would love to be able to select my listening by sound rather than station, in fact I currently have to any way. wouldn't it be wonderful to have a listening web, burble for radio 4 or discussion, shout for news, sing for music... seriously the ones amongst you who consider accessibility to be about cross browser issues are missing out. That's an important issue, but not even a small part of the major concerns coming. Multimedia is a huge area, as is preffered learning method. the relationship between these two and the technologies employed is the central concern. That might sound a tad eowg, but somehow the guidelines need to be people not technology centred and reflect the fact that accessible means different things to different people. Best wishes jay@peepo.com special needs teacher web accessibility consultant
Received on Wednesday, 5 April 2000 09:30:25 UTC