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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Sep 8, 2014 4:39PM

If it is a thought experiment, shouldn't you purposely leave out details to
see what people's reactions would be?

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Ryan E. Benson

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
<EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I understand what you mean, but the intent isn't to confuse anybody, but
> to prove a conceptual point; this being that only a total lack of
> information is 100% accessible to all people equally, and that all web
> accessibility must as a result scale downwards from that absolute point.
> Since the page has no practical purpose at all, and provides nothing to
> anybody, everybody receives the same amount of information, and it is thus
> compliant with all standards because no population receives any more
> information than any other, making it equally accessible to all.
>
> As I've said, it's just a thought experiment to prove the point.
>
> If you personally were going to try and represent this concept to people
> using a web page, keeping in mind that it is a thought experiment so you
> can't explain all of this in advance, how would you set up the page to show
> this?
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