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
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