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From: Annmarie L Gemma
Date: Oct 11, 2004 10:00AM

My apologies... I meant Andrew, not Andrea

----- Original Message -----
From: alg230
Date: Monday, October 11, 2004 11:56 am
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Web accessibility and usability

>
> 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
>
> >
> >
> > > 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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