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LYNX-DEV WWW for the disabled (fwd)
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Roger Hill |
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LYNX-DEV WWW for the disabled (fwd) |
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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
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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.
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