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From: michael.brockington
Date: Oct 11, 2004 4:18AM

> As for the usefulness of such a study, I'd say yes...anything that can
> help convince decision makers to invest in accessibility would be a good > thing.

I think that you are jumping to conclusions there - I don't mean to be
awkward, but occasionaly adding accessibility has meant (for me) sacrificing
usability a little, and I suspect that any un-biased report would have to say
the same thing. (Does anyone think that the previously mentioned Microsoft
Report was un-biased? Is any MS Report ever unbiased?)
The most obvious example that I can think of was a recent discussion about
providing documents in multiple formats. The best way of doing this in a
visual browser is to do:

Extremely_long_document_title: (Word Format) (PDF Format)
Official_Reports_Always_Have_long_names: (Word Format) (PDF Format)

But this conflicts with accessibility since all of the links have the same
name. I don't know which solutions people use, but (by definition) any
accessible solution will be less usable.

Mike


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