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From: Annmarie L Gemma
Date: Oct 11, 2004 9:52AM

Mike, Jon, Chris, Andrea, Glenda, and Patrick,

I want to thank you all for your ideas. I am reviewing your postings and the suggested articles, and will likely have questions if you don't mind, once I have a better handle on the topic.

Thanks for your feedback....
Annmarie

----- Original Message -----
From: "michael.brockington"
Date: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:13 am
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Web accessibility and usability

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>
> > From: jongund [ <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> >
> > I do not think you can make a general statement that
> > accessibility means poorer usability.
> >
>
> Hold on a minute - that is nothing like what I said! Almost the
> reverse, in
> fact. What I said was that 'occasionaly' there was a conflict.
> In other words, I don't think that you can say that accessibility
> means_better_ usability.
> Sometimes we have to drop the bells and whistles off a site to remain
> accessible. Given enough time, most things can be worked around,
> but none of
> us ever have enough time, so some things remain un-implemented. An
> obviousparallel is the WCAG advice regarding ALT/TITLE atributes -
> having them alone
> is not enough - they must be meaningful. I have seen many sites
> recentlysporting various accessibility logos, where it is
> impossible to find your way
> around: if the Author had spent less time running pages through
> Bobby et al
> the site might have had useful navigation.
> On a technical note, the levels of interactivity that DHTML
> brought us is
> anathema to accessibility. For example my understanding is that
> date-pickers
> are a no-no for accessibility, so we have to take a step backward in
> useability, since they might confuse some users.
>
> Mike
>
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