Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 03:19:42 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: NatWest? no thanks Message-ID: <002801c166b4$eec7c320$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15334.58300.361356.19614@guru.mired.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] >Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 11:09 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; chat@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: NatWest? no thanks > > >Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: >> >> 3) Even if there was a US Supreme Court ruling that mandated ADA for >> >> commercial >> >> websites, how would it apply if the website content was not >about something >> >> that a blind person can use. >> > >> >If a blind person were acting in some capacity for a a sighted person >> >- i.e., considering buying a gift, or researching options or some such >> >thing. >> > >> >> Hmmm... but how would a blind person research which porno site had the >> better pictures? Or how would a blind person select a modern art >> painting for a gift? > >By the description that would be attached to the image(s) in a >properly designed site. > OK, try this one: "Modern art painting - bloches of color like paint or bird droppings on canvas" It tells you absolutely nothing about the painting because the whole point of such paintings is to evoke an emotional response and that will be different for each person. Without being able to see the painting you cannot get an emotional response, and any description that lists what emotional response your supposed to get is going to be wrong for anyone but the author, besides most likely being objectionable to the "artist" (who is going to rebel at a description that tells people how to feel when they view his painting anyway) In short, there's going to be some, probably few, graphics that have no coorespondence to text and that a blind person cannot use. Applying access rules to them is very weird, to say the least. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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