[thelist] FWD: Internet World - The Good Side Of Regulation

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> From:	Lumir G Janku [SMTP:lgjanku@w3matrix.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, March 18, 2000 2:21 AM
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> Subject:	Re: [thelist] FWD: Internet World - The Good Side Of
> Regulation
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> >From:
> >http://www.ldonline.org/abcs_info/articles-info.html
> >"LD is a disorder that affects people's ability to either interpret what
> >they see and hear or to link information from different parts of the
> brain.
> >These limitations can show up in many ways: as specific difficulties with
> >spoken and written language, coordination, self control, or attention.
> Such
> >difficulties extend to schoolwork and can impede learning to read, write,
> >or do math."
> 
> And...?
> What is your proposal regarding providing "access" to folks with this type
> 
> of disability?
	[Burns, Martin]  
That you do what we're actively thinking about (although not to this
extent yet - the penny is still dropping).

You write different versions of your content for different audiences.
We (the UK's second biggest banking group) are thinking about doing
this to present product info for financially sophisticated consumers
differently from those who are less so, plus different languages.

With a database backed site, it's easier than producing different
visual versions for different users. All it takes is extending the
content table with more fields for different language versions,
and adding a lang=foo parameter to the URL.
> If people can't "interpret what they see and hear or to link information 
> from different parts of the brain", then no matter what one does, they are
> 
> unable to use internet, even in the most simplified form, n'est ce pas?
[Burns, Martin]  
*Bzzzt* go to the bottom of the class. The Internet stopped being the sole
preserve of university students and graduates some time ago. It's an
inclusive
mass medium today with people with all levels of ability accessing it.
<joke> After
all, were that not the case, would AOL have succeeded?</joke>

Cheers
Martin



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