"Web standards are not arcane laws decreed by ivory-tower organizations. As we have described, the standards are for the most part decided by representatives of the same people who use them - browser makers, Web developers, content providers, and other organizations."
I found this to be an interesting quote, because I wasn't quite sure what the author meant by it. I couldn't decide if he meant this to be a good thing or a bad thing. Considering the first sentence that I placed above, I suppose it's most likely that he sees this as a good thing, and it very well could be... but it seems to almost contradict everything that he's been saying throughout the article. How can web standards help the disabled if people who are disabled aren't having some input in the creation of these standards?
Besides that one paragraph, I essentially agreed with everything else the author had to say, and found it relatively interesting. He even addressed some of the same issues in the Zeldman chapter, like forward-compatibility, and denying portions of a target audience aka accessibility.
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