Richard Gardenhire wrote:
Does anyone have the address to write to the Web Consortium, so that
concerns can be expressed?
Sorry, I'm confused. What concerns, exactly? What are you trying to
achieve by writing to them?
There are many different ways for individuals to interact with the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which has a whole range of different
activities, only one of which is accessibility focused (the Web
Accessibility Initiative). Writing to a generic contact email address at
the Consortium is unlikely to be an especially effective course of
action. Usually people raise issues on an appropriate public Consortium
mailing list, having checked to see that the issue hasn't already been
raised and dealt with before.
Here's W3C's contact page:
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/contact
And here's the public W3C mailing list index:
http://lists.w3.org/
And here's the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative homepage:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
I find that most of the web designs are not the fault of Apple's, but
rather, in the design of the website.
Perhaps. But I think some of WebKit's deficiencies mean that good
designs don't work well and that bad designs (which are indeed common)
aren't dealt with as well as they could be.
Is this what you meant by the web bug tracker, or is this two different
situations altogether?
I wasn't talking about the "web bug tracker" (there's no such thing),
but rather about the "WebKit bug tracker". WebKit (that's Web plus Kit
as one word) is a open source web rendering engine. For an explanation
of what that means, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layout_engine
The WebKit engine underpins browsers such as OmniWeb and Shiira but also
other HTML-consuming applications such as Apple Mail and Colloquy. Most
relevantly here, it is the engine that Safari uses. For an introduction
to WebKit, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
The WebKit bug tracker is a bug tracker specifically for the WebKit
rendering engine:
http://bugs.webkit.org/
Hope that explains things a bit better, but don't hesitate to ask for
clarification if you don't find it at the links provided above.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
