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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Sep 7, 2014 12:04PM

I agree that more constructive and innovative solutions would be good to see.

I don't think my post was really off topic though for the WAI list, because it was addressing a valid point regarding web accessibility, which is that only a total lack of information is 100% accessible to all people equally, and the only way to represent this is with a blank page.

It was also supposed to be a thought experiment, designed to make people think instead of just reacting, which happens all too often. So all in all, since people are still talking about it, I guess this worked :)

The article seems to have missed the point of the accessibility algorithm as well, which wasn't a joke either, but actually based on real testing data using these technologies, so the calculation does work, even though they are just estimates and it may not be useful for anything specific. It does prove that the highest bar that any web technology can hope to achieve is the greatest percentage of accessibility for the greatest percentage of people possible using the most common ATs, which can never reach 100% for all people in the world equally no matter what is done to achieve this. We can only do our best...