Re: Designing for WebTV

Hummmm...

This is *not* the meaning or direction I intended! Let's refocus:

I just don't care for the way sites look in WebTV. They are squished. It
seems that they would be best approached using a mostly text format, and
forget the graphics. So, because the magic in Internet sites is in the
graphics, and I'd rather not abandon those effects, my thoughts were to
create a simple, text based page(s) separately for WebTV viewers, because
there seem to be a lot of them out there! I just would like to solve this
simple dilemma, and that's why I asked all of you --to see how you all
approach this concern. I'm not interested in getting into "accessibility"
issues at this time, and it was probably the furthest thing from my mind
when I posted my inquiry originally.

Lauren


----- Original Message -----
From: "Captain F.M. O'Lary" <ctfuzzy(at)canopy.net>
To: "Lauren Hanka" <bluejay(at)starband.net>; <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Designing for WebTV


> Lauren,
>
> woops.
>
> You have it exactly backwards.
>
> If the page is written *technically correctly* most all the accessibility
> issues are addressed *automatically*.
>
> It is when "developers" start catering to special minorities (web TV for
> example) that we wind up with site that don't work universally.
>
> The web was text based information, which does happen to work universally
> if coded correctly, long before it was . . . . modified . . . to work for
> those incapable or unwilling to think beyond 'point and click'.
>
> HTH,
> Fuzzy.
>
>
> At 09:12 PM 5/10/01 , Lauren Hanka wrote:
> >Bill,
> >
> >What do I say? and why would you have me go through so much in addition
to
> >my original trouble and frustrations, which was designing for WebTV?
> >
> >I could beat my chest about certain things too... but I choose not to,
> >because I don't expect the entire world to accommodate me. I don't whine
> >about inconveniences --I just deal with them. I participate in the things
I
> >am able to. Everyone has their special cross to bear --their lessons to
> >learn. The Internet is enjoyed by a primarily *viewing* audience. True?
> >It's good to design sites for special users in mind --that's pleasing a
> >*target audience,* but to infer that all sites should be accessible to a
> >favorite minority is unreasonable and even selfish, in my opinion. Why
add
> >to others' burdens?
> >
> >Lauren
> ______________________________________________________________
> Captain F.M. O'Lary
> webmaster(at)canopy.net
> "Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for
> the rest of the day."
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