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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jun 12, 2006 4:50AM

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Patrick Lauke wrote:

>> Jukka K. Korpela
>
>> The time for accessibility and other evaluation and
>> constructive proposals
>> based on it is when a site is being designed (or redesigned).
>
> That seems to imply that WebAIM was redesigned without any
> regard for accessibility or other evaluation, which I'd posit
> isn't true.

As I wrote, people who did the redesign probably did their best, but is
was still a failure. What I wrote was a response to a question why _I_ did
not make constructive proposals. (Which I made, in fact, though
indirectly. Saying that text and link color contrast isn't sufficient is a
concrete proposal if you take it that way, even though it does not specify
particular color values.)

> It's just that the consultation process wasn't public, possibly
> because of a fear of "too many cooks" with their own personal
> likes and dislikes?

Perhaps. Maybe they'll tell us.

That would _also_ set an example - a wrong one. It would tell people that
they, too, should revamp their sites without asking the people who use
them, in fear of comments that might express even personal likes and
dislikes.

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