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From: Cliff Tyllick
Date: Mar 4, 2009 10:05AM

Randy, it would help to know what "other web technology" is preventing access.

Table-based designs are (or should be) on their way out. Web 2.0 is what's coming.

Or is the problem that one or more popular Web 2.0 sites use table-based layout themselves?

Cliff Tyllick
Web development coordinator
Agency Communications Division
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
512-239-4516
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>>> "Randall Pope" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 3/4/2009 10:56 AM >>>
Hi all,

I got a question about BrailleNote, a notetaker device from Humanware. From
the complaint I received, many of these users cannot access websites that
contain table layout and other web technology for some reason. Do we need to
slow down and wait for the BrailleNote technology to catch up before going
on with the Web 2.0 technology? Or should we go move on to newer web
technology? This has been on my mind for quite sometimes and trying to
figure the best direction to take.

With Warm Regards,
Randall "Randy" Pope
American Association of the Deaf-Blind
Website: http://www.aadb.org

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