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My CSUN presentation (with the fascinating title of “Comparing the Roles and Interrelationships of the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines”) was well-attended, and went mostly okay. Well enough, in fact, that those whose pictures I took were still smiling at the end.

Revise and extend: I made an analogy to the provision of accessible Web content as being like the proverbial tree falling in the forest: i.e., if you create it without an agent that can render it accessibly, is it of any use? The salient detail that I left out is that the WAI designed the plan for accessibility of the content and the agents in tandem (along, of course, with the authoring tools).

Perhaps it would have been better to say something like: If the tree of Web content accessibility falls in the forest, and no user agents are there to hear it, would it make a noise? Maybe not, but once the agents get to that point of the forest, they’re sure as hell going to be happy to have all that timber ready to haul away.