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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

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From: lister [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 7:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Re[2]: Include default text?



This has been a good icon discussion which I think could be tied to the
"making a business case for accessibility" issue Glenda brought up several
days ago. While an icon should not replace a good accessibility statement,
the "placard" aspect of an icon provides something upper management can see
(and point to) for their investment in accessibility. I agree it would be
best left out of the way on an accessibility statement, rather than on every
page. Of course, it also promotes accessibility and standards in general...
when someone sees it for the first time it may turn them on to the whole
movement!

..matt

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From: lists38 [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Re[2]: Include default text?



glenda wrote:

>How come web accessibility is generally thought of in terms of blind users?
>What about all the other disability types?
>
>
That was just an example. Fact is that a w3c icon is as useless to a
keyboard user or a colourblind person. A specific accessibility
statement for the site makes sense for all of them.

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