Blind Web Users

The Internet, as James Pinkerton suggests (Commentary, April 6), is most certainly not an “inherently visual medium.” Graphical features of the Web were put there by commercial interests, and the preponderance of graphics-rich sites is a function of marketing, not nature. Blind computer users have had Web access for as long as there has been a Web.

Pinkerton’s assertion that the Microsoft antitrust trial brought about interest in handicapped access is also ludicrous. Efforts by the Worldwide Web Consortium, W3C, to include the disabled have been around for years.

JOHN HURST

Burbank