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Re: Re[2]: Include default text?

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From: Glenda
Date: Oct 22, 2004 12:25AM

Thanks for your support Matt,

Perhaps my "wheelchair sticker on the front door" wasn't the right analogy.
I think you got at the point better than I did. Perhaps the icon isn't for
the blind visitor using the screen reader. Perhaps its for the average AB
user to raise awareness about Web accessibility. Why shouldn't upper
management and/or site owners "show off" by putting the icon on the home
page rather than hidden away on an accessibility statement page which the
average AB probably wouldn't click on? If businesses are members of the
Better Business Bureau or another kind of recognition, isn't that usually up
front somewhere? Why not the same with Web accessibility?

Interesting discussion.

Cheers,
Glenda

Ps AB = able-bodied