At 02:03 p.m. 04/07/98 -0700, Michael C. Berch wrote:
>Michelle Dick wrote:
>> Keeping lists accessable to blind readers is yet another reason for
>> not complicating simple text discussion with overhead for uneeded
>> color and fonts. Color and fonts do not improve discussion.
>This seems to me to be a case of the tail wagging the dog; perhaps
>appropriate for a list designed specially for blind readers, but otherwise I
>would stick to the axiom, "optimize for the general case".
Y'see, I optimize for least common denominator, not general case.
>Besides, the screen readers for blind users (for Windows and X) that I know of
>are easily configurable to ignore (or otherwise deal with) rich-text markup.
>(Otherwise how do you think they would cope with Web pages?)
In general, blind people can't cope well with the web; most
people design for "general case" (i.e., "whatever I had six
months ago"), and the visually impaired have a hard time
using the web in the same way you or I would.
BTW, since I have an opportunity to plug a project I'm
working on, I'll take it:
The HTML Writers Guild has declared April to be a special
"focus on accessibility" month, to highlight the importance
of designing pages that _everyone_ can access. More details
at http://www.hwg.org/ :)
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