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LYNX-DEV WWW for the disabled (fwd)


From: Roger Hill
Subject: LYNX-DEV WWW for the disabled (fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:50:29 +0400 (GMT-4)

Hi: there was an article in today's Electronic Telegraph in the UK, about
the Web accessibility initiative.

I sent them the attached note.
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Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:21:59 +0400
From: address@hidden
To: address@hidden
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Subject: WWW for the disabled

In today's paper, Wendy Grossman wrote:



>          W3C Launches the International Web Accessibility Initiative


......
>   According to Geoff Ryman, a Web developer for the Central Office of
>   Information, a very high percentage of those accessing the
>   Government's servers do so without graphics.
>   
>   using green and red. Today publishers don't want users to have that
>   control, and so we have everywhere small fonts that are unreadable
>   against black backgrounds or held unchangeably in an Adobe Acrobat
>   format.
>   
>   December. As the average age rises many more of us will have
>   difficulties with vision, dexterity, hearing, and mobility.
>   
......

You might wish to follow this up with an article on the Lynx web browser.
Lynx is a character based browser, with full support for frames, forms etc,
that is being used by a large number of blind and sight-impaired users.  It
is also MUCH faster than using Netscape or MSIE when browsing; a lot of
users including myself, use it almost exclusively.  Commercial sites hate
it, because you don't see the advertisements!

Check out http://lynx.browser.org.

Regards

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