Mr. Cohn,
The desire for understanding tends to be expressed prior to assumptions.
I have no desire nor inclination to satisfy your interest.
I dare say, since the list is where you started, this note was intended for
there. I certainly did not express a wish to hear from you privately.
On Sat, 12 May 2018, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
Hello Ms. Lewellen,
I use the Surname here in mirror to your remarks to me on the MacVisionaries
mailing list. My memory of your web browser of choice isLynx. I am not aware
if this is your only browser and if the reason you use it is directly related
to any disability. I do have the personal view that properly designed ARIA
widgets that use Javascript to modify the DOM have made my access to complex
web sites significantly easier. I used Lynx briefly, but found myself leaning
more toward using commercial screen readers and standard web browsers as my
vision decreased and support for IBM's wonderful self voicing web browser
disappeared.
Perhaps I mistaken about your web browsers of choice or perhaps I have not
understood why somebody would use Lynx for day to day browsing. A Significant
number of sites I visit and for that matter the systems I check accessibility
on professionally do not progressively degrade to a non JavaScript environment
and while 10 years ago I would often disable JavaScript and Java plugins
because of security concerns, today current sandboxing technologies boast my
confidence in the ability of browsers to be more secure.
If you would like to provide feedback to the above thoughts I will consider it
carefully and use it to help my future design decisions.
Thanks for keeping the fires burning, I know you have done a lot for the
accessibility community.
Warmly,
Jonathan Cohn
