Re: Awards and award attitude :(

Hi, Paul...

Interesting bit about the directory placement.  I have no awards (!), yet am
listed well in Yahoo on a couple of my chosen keywords, and even though I
can't really effect placement of the others, I know at least that I'm in the
results!  I do believe your wife had an excellent response for that one!

Design for accessibility is slow in being adopted, but will come.  I have no
doubt of that.  Have you looked at the new proposal for HTML 5?  It
incorporates a base that has adopted many of the advantages of XML...which
means finally a cross-platform markup.  That means it can be read by
applications that will interpret the tags according to that application's
function.  So finally, no matter who writes it, or for what audience, no
browser will be excluded.

In the meantime, much corporate-level thinking puts the Web on a level with
TV.  That means they think of it as one huge commercial, and that means
appeal to the numbers.  It is not (IMHO) the proper approach for this
medium, because we are not just experiencing interactive commercials
here...we are communicating.  However, a great deal of "flash" and money has
gone into promoting that commercial, blinking banner type of approach, and
that is bound to affect the profiteers.  It is a growing pain of the Net,
and one which you have captured well in your post.

Stick to your guns.  The universal, people-first approach you are using will
triumph in the long run, because the Internet is a place where people talk
to each other in common sense, everyday speech.  Some people are out to just
profit, and they can not hide that for long, as you have just proven.
Others, like yourself, design for people...and that will get around, too.

Thanx

Darrell

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