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My friend and fellow Bowen Islander John Dumbrille is beginning to engage with issues of accessibility for Web sites. He has some recent posts on his blog which look to me to be the beginning of a white paper. It will be interesting to see how his thinking evolves along these questions:
�Simple� or �common� does not make for great design � �appropriate� does. A person who has had a brain injury that affects her cognitive functioning, and a person who was born blind both have “disability” in common, as well as some legal or social disconnect issues. But their lives and needs are very different� so why serve them the same experience?
The question is an interesting one from a web design point of view, but my curiosity is piqued a little more in thinking about these same questions applied to organizational structures. Connecting people, all people, in common endeavours requires attention to diversity AND functionality. It’s not a question of one size fits all, as John also points out, but many sizes serving many.
At the very least it’s given me some nice food for thought for our regular coffee breaks together.
