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             Godspeed,
    David Goldfield

          http://www.davidgoldfield.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "shayne Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: Questions about your website


>
> Dear Mr Goldfield
>
> I hope you will excuse a complete stranger writing to you, but I have been
> looking at your website (the Eye of Orion)and wondered if you would be
> willing to answer a couple of questions for me.
>
> I am a university student and am about to begin my third year IT
> dissertation.  I am interested in covering a subject that will be of use
to
> webmasters who are blind/visually impaired (I would like to produce some
> work that will actually benefit someone, and not just any old thing to get
> my degree, or something that is only of interest to business concerns),
and
> wondered if you could tell me the following:
>
>
> 1) Are there specifically designed html editors for people with visual
> impairment? If not, how satisfactory are products such as frontpage etc?
>
> 2) Having looked at many sites created by webmasters with impaired vision
I
> have realised that although most do not use graphics, a significant amount
> do - in your opinion what is the main deciding factor when choosing
whether
> to use graphics or not, i.e. is it a matter of the difficulty of using
> graphics or a decision based on something else. I was wondering how useful
> an extremely large database of images with extensive text descriptions etc
> would be for visually impaired webdesigners?
>
> I hope you will be able to answer these questions for me, but if you do
not
> wish to I understand perfectly as it is very cheeky of me to contact a
> stranger in this way.  Once again please excuse the intrusion.
>
> best wishes
>
> Shayne Wilson (Mrs)
>
> Wales,GB
>
>
>
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