Regardless of how strange. Let us set the stage.
A virtual confrontation upon a web page.
Captures the source of mutual co - frustration.
Were we to meet today.
Upon your street.
Would you block our way?
Were we to knock upon your door.
Would you send us all away?

We too would like to communicate and participate.
Person- to- person, around the world, and all across the nation.
When you have a story to tell,
we would like to hear it too.
If you have something to sell,
we would like to buy from you.
When you have information to share,
we would like to share ours too.

WEB SITE ACCESS CONFLICTS are the result of two advancing technologies. Computers and Adaptive Application Technology change annually. While Web Site Language Technology sometimes advances monthly.

Conflicts and evolutionary time lags between technologies will never be resolved at the cutting edge of the techno - horizon. Much of the effort to define standards is on the cutting edge of accessibility and technology. Most of this effort is from voluntary professional and user groups.

Curb-Cuts are needed to take these efforts beyond the voluntary. To actively promote those Basic Minimum Standards that define Current Basic Access. Beyond influence of the techno - horizon. To actively carry the Basic Minimum Standards that define Basic Accessibility into common practices by individual users. Through active online promotion and interactive online training of individual users to utilize these basic minimum standards of accessibility in their web site presentations.

GRAPHIC AND TEXT ENVIRONMENT CONFLICTS Industry and Technology are committed to continue the advancement of the Graphic Environment to the general [market] public. Adaptive Technology and the advancement of the Text Environment will continue to lag behind. So long as specialty applications are limited by market size to small [special] populations. Without the benefits of mass production and price - scale reductions.

Adaptive Technology applications lag behind, until they receive general market recognition and acceptance. Such as that achieved recently by Screen Readers, Speech Dictation, and Optical Character Recognition [OCRs]. Which are now available to the general market at competitive market - prices.

Curb-Cuts are needed to inform members of our senior population as potential and eventual users of adaptive and assistive technology. Through active [off-line] senior organization promotion and interactive online education. To introduce members of the senior population to use the benefits of computers [over typewriters] for word processing, information, reading sources, and internet communications.

While educating industry to the potential of an ever expanding population with a current average spendable income of $16,000.00 a year. As well as encourage the benefits of greater market volume and price competition.

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