Re: Hello?

Hello all. I'm here as well and as I mentioned to John, I almost forgot that I
had registered : )
I try to make all the sites I work on accessible and valid and once you get the
tools and the knowledge, things can proceed fairly quickly.
Lauren, listen to the presentation that Mike mentioned and you'll see that all
is not as dire as you have been led to believe.

As to the web being a visual medium, it certainly is for sighted folks.

Cheers,

Lauren Hanka wrote:

> I'm here John, and have been watching with hesitated interest. Please, be
> don't be disgusted, but I find accessibility issues annoying. Tell me why
> one must study, on top of all the other studies that are required to keep up
> with this ever-changing, and highly competitive field, to make a site
> accessible for the visually impaired, when if this is desired, all that's
> really needed, as far as I understand, is make a "text only" duplicate of an
> existing site? Am I wrong? Short-sighted? After all, the Web, *is* a
> visually based medium, as is television. Of course, I am in agreement that
> e

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