Re: Lineage

In article <68b64gF2q11npU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Clinch
<p.j.clinch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Cartmell wrote:

This is uk based. There is a disability access law even if you are
prepared to ignore the international standards laid down to describe good
practice in the area - and pandering to a single foreign commercial
company at the cost of the law and good practice (and note that a
properly designed web site will work even with the bad browsers from
Microsoft) is rather silly. I'm assuming that it's simply a mistake and
I'm waiting for the proper site to surface.

Blimey... I'm fairly well acquainted with the web accessibility standards,
and it's a bit of a can of worms, but there are clear differences between
service providers and website operators.

That doesn't mean, of course, that it's not desirable that web sites *are*
accessible, but it remains the case that you're ridiculously over-egging
the pudding in your paragraph above. Yes, the OP should be encouraged to
make a portable, accessible website, but I don't see what you're doing
(saying it's fundamentally broken, when it clearly isn't as it's getting
used and the originator can see it getting used so he can see you're wrong,
and going on about how it breaks the law, when the originator can see no
shortage of other sites that are at least as bad in that respect that
nobody does anything about) is in any way encouraging.

In other words, try using a carrot rather than a stick.

The whole lot was offered to us as a "please look and criticise". What I've
been offered is a blank page. As a blank page it's either a bad joke or the
originator has learnt an important lesson - and I've added bits to extend the
learning. I make no criticism of the individual - and plenty of the real
villains who are Microsoft.

For the OP, http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/ is a good place to learn a little
more about webaccessibility. It should be possible to make it a feature of
the marketing side of your project if you demonstrate an awareness of it
and adjust your site accordingly.

Agreed.

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