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Re: Re[2]: Include default text?

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From: Glenda
Date: Oct 21, 2004 3:46PM


I can see your point about the accessibility icons. But isn't it somewhat
similar to establishments putting the wheelchair sticker on the front door?
As a wheelchair user, it indicates to me that place MAY be more
wheelchair-friendly than the place next door.

Glenda

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From: jkorpela [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:32 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Re[2]: Include default text?



On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, glenda wrote:

> I definitely don't rely solely on Bobby to determine accessibility.

Bobby should be ignored. Some experts who really know what it does and how
wrong it works in many ways might find it a useful tool, but I doubt that.

> I'll look at the W3C icons too.

Don't. Accessibility icons work against accessibility. This becomes
evident if you even once look at your page and imagine that you are one
of the people to whom accessibility matters. What could _they_ possibly
benefit from the icons? They are just distraction, pointless enigmas and
disturbance.

But you can look at the W3C WAI guidelines and checklists, of course.
Just remember that they are not accessibility. They cover some aspects of
accessibility, mostly in a right way, but only partially.

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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