Thread Subject: Re: Action Item #2 - Definition of Web Page

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Thu, Aug 23 2007 7:20 PM

At 07:08 AM 8/23/2007, Robinson, Norman B - Washington, DC wrote:
>Determining if something is a web page or an application embedded and/or
>linked in a web page is different in truth and in perspective.

While I do understand the technical issues, when we consider this from a
user perspective...why does it matter at all.

We've heard a lot about the problems of understanding what provisions apply
to the specific way that a company/agency has decided to create their E&IT,
but ultimately, the goal is the people who use the products. If we look at
the Purpose, it is focused on people "....[a group of people] with
disabilities have access to and use of information and data..."

We've heard a lot about the difficulty of maintaining accessibility in
environments that are not perfectly controlled. All true. But this neither
changes the goal nor the definition of different types of E&IT. Why, for
example, should a user know (or care) whether I used Notepad, a special web
editor or a dictation program to create a bit of E&IT. The question is
whether .... when that user sits down to read that E&IT, it is accessible
to them.





Whitney Quesenbery
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