Re: WCAG 2.0 usage scenarios

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From: "Lee Roberts" <[email protected]>
To: "Bazzmann.Com - Marco Trevisan" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: WCAG 2.0 usage scenarios


>
> I'm with keeping them differences as Wendy has them.
>
> Rationale:
> Not all web designers are graphic designers.  Some may think or operate
> differently, but in all truthfulness until companies started having
graphic
> designers learn HTML there was a strong destintion.  The destinction has
> only been faded in the past few years, but there are still companies out
> there that realize the worth of separating the different principles.
>
> In my firm I have graphic designers, programmers, and GUI designers.  The
> graphic designer does the layout, the programmers do the backend
programming
> (PHP, Perl, ASP, databases, and the like), and the GUI designers
specialize
> in either either the interface coding or usability.
>
> Conclusion:
> Based upon my experiences Wendy's separation of the differences is vitally
> important.  Eventually we will all be at the separation instead of trying
to
> train someone to be a specialist in more than one field.

it is right... a web designer is not always a graphic designer...
We as IWA/HWG are defining the definition of web professional specification
(IWA/HWG International has made these since 1996...) and we are trying to
create a "point of division" of these two specialities.
For example, i have some web designers that are IWA-ITALY members that are
also graphic designer and they prefer to develop web sites with a lot of
graphic and animation, and some web designers that are now specializing in
simple design for web site and contents....
By the way, i think that is more simple to have a "web designer only" that
develops web accessible web sites than a "graph and web designer" that
prefer more "look" for web site and contents.

Roberto Scano
IWA/HWG EMEA Coordinator
W3C Advisory Commitee Representative for IWA/HWG
International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild
http://www.iwanet.org - http://www.hwg.org
E-Mail: [email protected] - [email protected]
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