- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: 2000年4月09日 18:52:27 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
- Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000409185033.00ac1230@mail.idyllmtn.com>
Gregg wrote: >For most access measure we recommend, we don't change the format that >everyone would see but only recommend alternatives that could be viewed by >people who have trouble with the original form. Most of your >recommendations seem to recommend changing the way everyone would see a page >so that it would work for people with CD. This often makes the primary >presentation of the page less usable for others - perhaps for all. >[...] >1) Do you (does anyone) have any ideas for how to make a page more >accessible in a way that doesn't change the presentation for others? (like >ALT text, long desc, closed captions, alternate OBJECT content etc.) It sounds to me like we may be hitting up against the limits of the "universal page design/single source" model for web design, and identifying a place where adaptive user interfaces are necessary. Does this sound like the case? (I'll stop now before I sound too much like an ad for Edapta, who, of course, make adaptive user interfaces... ;) ) -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.kynn.com/ Director of Accessibility, edapta http://www.edapta.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/ Next of Kynn: a quasi-regular web log http://www.kynn.com/next/
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