Hey, Walt! Keep your shirt on!

I wasn't saying anything about the importance or lack thereof of vision.
I merely commented that I saw little reason to reproduce a majority of
the items on a web page on all the pages to which it is linked. After
all, if one needs all that stuff up at the top, why have a left-arrow? I
have the same question regarding the links always on pages to return to
the previous page. Seems to me it's just as easy to return by hitting
the left-arrow. But page designers appear to have forgotten that said
key exists -- or perhaps their readers have.

Mike < K 7 U I J >

----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: sorry to be a pain in the ...


> Let's face it ... the net is _not_ designed for the tiny minority of
users
> who cannot see.  It's essentially a visual medium and becoming more so
> every day and we have to deal with it, like it or not.  People who've
> never had useful vision find it easy to trivialize and minimize the
> importance and usefulness of vision ... that's sheer self-centeredness
and
> stupidity and one huge reason I have never accepted much of what most
of
> the leadership in organizations of the blind have said concerning
vision
> and its importance.  I've had vision and I've been blind and I'll
damned
> well tell you that the former is highly preferable any day of the
week.
>
> --
> Walt Smith - Raleigh, NC
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