The growing accessibility gap: was Ameritech.net

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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Jude DaShiell wrote:

 > When a computer language is written so that it's possible for stupid
 > programmers to generate garbage with it and call that finished product the
 > inventors of the language in my book take full responsibility for having
 > enabled the garbage.  html on its face before netscape and microsoft came
 > in and added their innovations was lots more accessible just using lynx
 > than most of the world-wide wait is today.
true in that respect that
a. blaming people to forget you as blind person in there desing-issues is
rightout arrogant
b. c and c++ can be graphical as well, yet I don't here discussions about
that


 > Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
 > 
 > On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Peter Toneby wrote:
 > 
 > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:36:26PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
 > > > The three companies primarily responsible for inaccessibility are sun
 > > > microsystems for having invented java in the first place.  Second netscape
 > > > for having innovated html and java.  Third Microsoft for having innovated
 > > > everything else.
 > >
 > > *beeep*
 > > Now this is pretty much plain wrong!!!!
 > > Java, in and on itself, is not inaccessible, it's stupid programmers
 > > that write stupid java-applets,. That should never have been possible.
 > > HTML is not netscapes fault, it w3c's, and netscape hasn't touched Java
 > > very much, IE and Netscape had java-support at the same time. And
 > > Microsoft haven't innovated shit. they have moslty bought their
 > > "innovations" and Windows is alot more accesible than linux when it
 > > comes to apps, In Linux you can't just start jaws and then pretty much
 > > any other app without problems, try and do that on linux with X (say to
 > > do something thee are no fileformat->text-app, You will fail miserably,
 > > but luckily this is seldom the case for most of you. And you can happily
 > > use Linux in console instead of X.
 > >
 > > oh, well time to stop rantin and start sleeping...
 > >
 > > /Peter
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