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Re: Do people actually want Automatic Accessibility within Web Technologies?

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From: Elle
Date: Apr 20, 2012 12:18PM

*I disagree with your simplistic assertions that using a specific set
of technologies
will "automatically" get you to accessible - it simply won't.*
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If we could just remove the human element from all of this, I think we'd
all get more hours of sleep.

John, I really could not agree more with your comments. As much as I wish
for a universally standardized, codified, and tidy online world of
accessible content using all the "best" technologies, and believe me I wish
for it often in my job, we will never reach that goal where individual and
unique user need no longer influences web accessibility. And, I shall
posit, we shouldn't aim for this. The web, at its best, is a very
interactive and fluid environment, changed and shaped by its users. Just
as user experience is highly personal and individual, so is web
accessibility. I will continue to strive to codify what I can, based on
the commonalities found in users' feedback and standards laid out by W3C,
but I won't pretend that we'll ever sanitize the web of the pesky
exceptions to the rule, who are in fact, people.


Respectfully,
Elle