Steve Bennett wrote:
On 3/29/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Earlier you wrote "Yes, I am leaping to the conclusion that making Wikipedia an attractive resource for teachers for use with kids is an improvement."
Yeah, I still don't get where plaudits come into anything.
Neither do I.
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Really? So, if they're "invisible to most users", what's the point of having them? Why not just leave them out altogether?
Presumably you would make the same argument for removing braille markings from food products in supermarkets.
Braille on food products is expected by people with impaired vision. Who is going to which readers do and don't see the warnings? Please stop trying to build strawmen...
Braille is "invisible" to most sighted people, because it's not useful to them, and they simply aren't aware of its existence. Of course, a blind person is very much aware. The same would go for content tags. I imagine that certain software can find content tags in <META> html tags, or even <!-- HTML comments-->. The average user would be blissfully unaware. Anyone with appropriate software would still be able to make use of them.
Work with me here, eh?
Okay, I just wasn't sure how you'd make them "invisible to most users" and yet still useful...