Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-08 Thread Joseph Taylor
I'm glad to hear that so many of us are experts on law and other topics that have nothing to do with web standards whatsoever. What does this suit have to do with web standards? Well, perhaps down the road somewhere more strict governing will be put in place. Do we want the government

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Nick Cowie
Andrew Maben wrote: On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:23 AM, Michael MD wrote: Opening the door to yet more lawsuits... In 2000, Bruce Maguire's accessibility complaint against the Olympics.comwebsite was upheld. Did this lead to a spate of frivolous, discriminatory lawsuits in Australia? As none

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Joe Ortenzi
No but you DO have an escalator at your local shopping mall because not everyone finds the climb up the stairs easy. Or should we remove the escalators and elevators from shopping malls too because they CHOSE to go to that shopping mall didn't they? Can you please use logic and sense? On

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
live. Steve From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson Sent: 03 October 2007 22:51 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Or do you think that your right to 'do what the hell you like' outweighs

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Or Golan
Target are saying If you are blind, you are worthless. We only take money from people who aren't like you. In a physical environment the equivalent would be turning them away at the door. Would you tolerate that if it was based on gender, religion or race? That's not what Target are saying. It's

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Or Golan
Target are saying If you are blind, you are worthless. We only take money from people who aren't like you. In a physical environment the equivalent would be turning them away at the door. Would you tolerate that if it was based on gender, religion or race? That's not what Target are saying. It's

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Nick Cowie
Well the first round has been decided a couple of days ago: http://www.nfb.org/nfb/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEWID=221 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071003/wr_nm/target_blind_dc_4 the DDA does apply to websites cynicallet more legal battles begin/cynical

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Or Golan
Target are saying If you are blind, you are worthless. We only take money from people who aren't like you. In a physical environment the equivalent would be turning them away at the door. Would you tolerate that if it was based on gender, religion or race? That's not what Target are saying. It's

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Christie Mason
From: Ortenzi No but you DO have an escalator at your local shopping mall because not everyone finds the climb up the stairs easy. Or should we remove the escalators and elevators from shopping malls too because they CHOSE to go to that shopping mall didn't they? Escalators and

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Maben
What is baffling about Target's position here is that while on the question of the web site they behave like ignorant trolls, meanwhile they managed to really break ground in usability with their prescription delivery system - http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
That's not what Target are saying. It's like a deaf person comes into their store and requests for assistance but no one speaks the sign language and he can't lip read. Is it discrimination not to have a sign-speaking person in your store just in case a deaf personcomes in? You analogy is

[WSG] Cost of Accessibility and WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread McLaughlin, Gail G
This conversation has been very interesting to follow these past few days. There are two topics that have not surfaced in the posts I've read. 1. The commercial sector does not take accessibility (on the web) seriously. My team works with many large clients globally in the web space, both

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Nancy Johnson
Hi I hope this thread isn't closed. I have never worked on large retail sites as I tend to work on non-profit and government sites, but if the problem has to do with alt tags then I have very little sympathy for Target as this seems like a minor thing. A person with a disability expends at

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-05 Thread Elizabeth Spiegel
The argument that providing reasonable access for blind/vision-impaired visitors/customers implies an equal need to provide translations into every language on the planet is a straw man. Last time I looked, the inability to speak English was not a disability (in any legal sense) although it's

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Ortenzi
No but you DO have an escalator at your local shopping mall because not everyone finds the climb up the stairs easy. Or should we remove the escalators and elevators from shopping malls too because they CHOSE to go to that shopping mall didn't they? Can you please use logic and sense? On

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Karl Lurman
Well that's a matter of opinion (preferably a matter of legal opinion). The thing is, it really should be, but right now, there aren't many laws written that protect much of what occurs online (read as: none). Sometimes I am glad thats the case however. I bet everyone around here has a website

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Genesis One And One
Steve Green wrote: I suspect that this lawsuit was premature The WCAG were published 8 years ago. How long should we wait? I don't know when Section 508 came into law but the UK's DDA was passed in 1995. Seems like long enough to me. 508 was 1998. WCAG was 1999 Target came online in 1997? IE

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joe Ortenzi
yes for an old site I no longer need. but been too busy fixing sites that people actually need and use. fair nuff. you gonna sue me? On Oct 3 2007, at 23:33, Chris Wilson wrote: If you are going to argue for standards and accesability, follow your own advice first. Captain table layout

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Karl Lurman
Russ, time to step in the ring perhaps? On 10/4/07, Joe Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes for an old site I no longer need. but been too busy fixing sites that people actually need and use. fair nuff. you gonna sue me? On Oct 3 2007, at 23:33, Chris Wilson wrote: If you are going to

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Careful... You vill also go on ze list! On Thu, October 4, 2007 7:28 am, Joe Ortenzi wrote: yes for an old site I no longer need. but been too busy fixing sites that people actually need and use. fair nuff. you gonna sue me? On Oct 3 2007, at 23:33, Chris Wilson wrote: If you are going

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Tony Crockford
On 4 Oct 2007, at 04:33, Jim Davies wrote: Speaking only of businesses int he United States, no government entity should be telling a private business what it must do WHAT? with that one line you have just summarised all that is strange about America. Private business is above the law?

RE: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread John Horner
There's one thing nobody has mentioned so far, which is Michelle Malkin is what I personally would call an extreme right-winger. She's a regular on Fox News, and she's been compared to Anne Coulter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin I find the idea that we'll drop her a polite,

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Rimantas Liubertas
Speaking only of businesses int he United States, no government entity should be telling a private business what it must do WHAT? with that one line you have just summarised all that is strange about America. Private business is above the law? They can do whatever they like? so it's

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Or Golan
even if making their site accessible to the blind costs target 0 dollars and 0 work, even if they need to just flip a button and bang - their site is accessible, it doesn't mean the law should force them to do it. what i really don't understand is why did the blind people sued target..if target

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Tony Crockford
On 4 Oct 2007, at 08:33, Rimantas Liubertas wrote: Speaking only of businesses int he United States, no government entity should be telling a private business what it must do WHAT? with that one line you have just summarised all that is strange about America. Private business is above the

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread kaz
Quoting Or Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: First things first. I am a complete and total grammar snob; I think it is because I see myself as a designer. Punctuation is important, as is spacing and capitalisation. They do not hinder you, contrary, they promote your argument, as it makes you seem

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Alas, it's the American way: Human rights and the constitution are vitally important (US only)- except when I'm turning a quick buck. On Thu, October 4, 2007 9:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Or Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: First things first. I am a complete and total grammar snob; I

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Harris
Matthew Cruickshank wrote: Karl Lurman wrote: P.s A braille issue of Playboy - is it perverted that I think this is a cool idea??! You know this exists right? http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000305.html [link is safe for work] I'm frightened you knew that, or even thought to

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
I thought legislature and regulation are constitutionally separate in the US? On Oct 04, 2007, at 06:01, Michael MD wrote: Speaking only of businesses int he United States, no government entity should be telling a private business what it must do and that includes telling a business it

Re: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Harris
John Horner wrote: There's one thing nobody has mentioned so far, which is Michelle Malkin is what I personally would call an extreme right-winger. She's a regular on Fox News, and she's been compared to Anne Coulter. Yes I did, at 10:47am. Keep up ;-)

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
RalphNader legislatively proved that you cannot budget the risks involved in the 70's with the famous Ford Pinto debacle. they forgot to include the bad press or legal challenge when ignoring the rights of the community. On Oct 04, 2007, at 06:24, Mike at Green-Beast.com wrote: I really

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
Bless you Kat for a very intelligent and reasoned argument. On Oct 04, 2007, at 09:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Or Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: First things first. I am a complete and total grammar snob; I think it is because I see myself as a designer. Punctuation is important, as

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Rob Crowther
Mike Brown wrote: [Mike - see, the problem is this guy is only a part-time web developer. If he was full-time, he'd totally have time and be able to solve the verbalise the text into every spoken language problem.] The funny thing for me was his later comment - someone else mentioned JAWS,

Re: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
I agree, reading her blog she seems to be a knee-jerk reactionary Republican who wants government support when they get shafted and government to lay off when others accuse them of shafting. Someone earlier said she was intelligent - I find little evidence of this. On Oct 04, 2007, at

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
Two mistakes. As already mentioned, they do, in legislation, need to make the site accessible or at least show the attempt to, NOT to say we don't want to so we won't. If they bar people who speak Spanish from the shop they are also being discriminatory, both to the Spanish they are

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
*SIGH* I know, that JAWS Activex/AD statement floored me, it really did How did he get on this list? Might be a newb like me but I though he'd know better than that. This is why it is taking me ages to recruit a LAMP developer who know who webstandards.org are and what they are for!

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson Sent: 03 October 2007 22:51 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Or do you think that your right to 'do what the hell you like' outweighs other people's right

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Julie Romanowski
Since I started it, I'll ask that we conclude the thread. Thanks to everyone for your input. The discussion was excellent and I now have some good ammo to use when debating this issue with others. I also see that the discussion has spread to other sites. Thanks again! Anyone want to conclude the

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
. any more. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Chamberlain Sent: 04 October 2007 00:18 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard I must be having a stupid attack as I can't

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Joseph Ortenzi
Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Target is a business, and they ain't in the business of making art. We are talking about a business that, despite one of the comments on that blog, HAS made a concious decision to exclude a portion of the populace from using

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard [long]

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Harris
Rimantas Liubertas wrote: I think these were mentioned in the part of the post you did not include in your quote... Interesting quoting tactics. Oh, please! Guilt by assertion? Jim Davies made no mention of taxes in his post. What he did say was: Of course the private businesses should do

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Or Golan
, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Breton Slivka Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2007 10:34 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Stuart Foulstone
This was a warning of others on WSG - not a threat by me. To get on the list you have to respond to a post by Chris Wilson in an intelligent reasoned way. He will then make some bah-hoo comment about your Website (because he can't defend himself by intelligent reasoning). This will then be

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Patrick Lauke
:58 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Those are all well and good, but utterly useless in a global marketplace. Should I be under your countries guidelines? Mine? What if I'm international? All of them? What

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Patrick Lauke
Jermayn Parker 1992 that is 15 years ago :shock: surely its time for a new updated version that includes up to date web version of rules etc. If you want businesses and websites to follow these standards they need to be update Because, you know...they've simply been ignoring 15

RE: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Patrick Lauke
Julie Romanowski Please visit Michelle Malkin's site and post your comments - http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/03/blind-shoppers-get-green- light-to-s ue-target-over-website/. It's reassuring to see the exact same idiotic views still being bandied around, most of them along the the web is

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Steve Green
October 2007 12:16 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Sorry I have to disagree some of these points. Comments among your text On Oct 04, 2007, at 01:56, Steve Green wrote: can anybody help me understand where the idea that accessibility

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Stuart Foulstone
- Please Make Yourself Heard Sorry I have to disagree some of these points. Comments among your text On Oct 04, 2007, at 01:56, Steve Green wrote: can anybody help me understand where the idea that accessibility costs money comes from? It certainly can do depending on the content of your

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Andrew Maben
On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:23 AM, Michael MD wrote: Opening the door to yet more lawsuits... In 2000, Bruce Maguire's accessibility complaint against the Olympics.com website was upheld. Did this lead to a spate of frivolous, discriminatory lawsuits in Australia? As none of the advocates of

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Andrew Maben
On Oct 4, 2007, at 1:01 AM, Michael MD wrote: I think the best response to ignorance is education ... not lawsuits... But as Target chose to dismiss attempts at education? Obviously education is preferable to recourse to law, but education sometimes fails. That's how people end up in

Re: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Christian Montoya
On 10/4/07, Joseph Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, reading her blog she seems to be a knee-jerk reactionary Republican who wants government support when they get shafted and government to lay off when others accuse them of shafting. Someone earlier said she was intelligent - I find

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread michael.brockington
In 2000, Bruce Maguire's accessibility complaint against the Olympics.com website was upheld. Did this lead to a spate of frivolous, discriminatory lawsuits in Australia? Did it lead to any improvement in accessibility of commercial, government or hobby web sites in Australia? Did it

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Tony Crockford
On 4 Oct 2007, at 17:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to ensure my professional work is accessible, but I am far from being persuaded that legislation of this nature can ever be effective, without also being a burden on smaller sites, particularly those that are no longer actively

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Barney Carroll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 2000, Bruce Maguire's accessibility complaint against the Olympics.com website was upheld. Did this lead to a spate of frivolous, discriminatory lawsuits in Australia? Did it lead to any improvement in accessibility of commercial, government or hobby web

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Mark Harris wrote: I'm frightened you knew that, or even thought to google it... I've been waiting a while to post this again, so now will do... In a survey of attitudes and responses to audio description of TV and video, the American Foundation for the Blind found that some respondents

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-04 Thread Ben Buchanan
The question is, why should we force anyone to do it? Well the short answer is: because corporations won't do it without being forced. So if we want a non-discriminatory society, we have to force corporations to do good things. No one makes his site non-accessible out of discriminating

A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Julie Romanowski
I don't know how many of you are familiar with Michelle Malkin. She posted about the Target lawsuit today, and although she is an intelligent woman, she doesn't have a clue when it comes to web accessibility. There also seems to be a lot of ignorance among the commenters and I would appreciate it

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
A private company should be able to do whatever the hell they like. Suit is without merit and frivolous. What's next, suing vehicle manufacturers for not providing a braille manual? I'm all for accesability, but there is no reason it should be mandated, and lack of is in no was discriminatory.

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson Sent: 03 October 2007 22:05 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard A private company should be able to do whatever the hell they like. Suit is without merit

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Joe Ortenzi
would love to but she won't let you comment unless you are logged in. free speech, eh? On Oct 3 2007, at 21:52, Julie Romanowski wrote: I don't know how many of you are familiar with Michelle Malkin. She posted about the Target lawsuit today, and although she is an intelligent woman, she

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Cat Lee
Maybe I'm missing something here, but Mount Everest was not man-made. The Target site on the other hand ... Cat On 10/3/07, Chris Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or do you think that your right to 'do what the hell you like' outweighs other people's right to be treated equally? Be treated

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
Better yet, since not everyone can see, lets require all publications to include a braille copy, all musical artists to provide a written transcript of ever performance. That would of course be madness... Why should a different standard be applied to the web? On 10/3/07, russ - maxdesign [EMAIL

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson Sent: 03 October 2007 22:51 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Or do you think that your right to 'do what the hell you like' outweighs other people's right to be treated equally

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread russ - maxdesign
I can only assume this is an attempt at trolling... Either that or phrases like the web is for everyone has fallen on deaf ears. Luckily, there are laws in many countries to stop companies and agencies doing whatever the hell the like when it comes to website and accessibility. Russ A

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Joe Ortenzi
You make an easy error Chris. Contrary to popular belief, websites are NOT visual, there is a lot of text and code in there, placed by good website designers, to allow sight-poor people, as well as people who need the text to be large, or require high contrast text, etc, to read the site.

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Matthew Cruickshank
Chris Wilson wrote: Better yet, since not everyone can see, lets require all publications to include a braille copy, all musical artists to provide a written transcript of ever performance. That would of course be madness... I'd like a car analogy next please. .Matthew Cruickshank

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
I think my point is being missed entirely. I completely support standards and accesability, but not at this cost. Should target improve their site? Yes. Should the be required to by a court? No. Which idea of accessability should be imposed? Yours? Mine? Certainly not a judge who likely has no

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Joe Ortenzi
No but you DO have an escalator at your local shopping mall because not everyone finds the climb up the stairs easy. Or should we remove the escalators and elevators from shopping malls too because they CHOSE to go to that shopping mall didn't they? Can you please use logic and sense? On

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew Boyd
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Cruickshank [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2007 8:14 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Chris Wilson wrote: Better yet, since not everyone can see, lets require

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
If you are going to argue for standards and accesability, follow your own advice first. Captain table layout over here. You don't even have alt tags on your images. Hypocritical aren't ya? Joe Ortenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.joiz.com

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Harris
Chris Wilson wrote: Better yet, since not everyone can see, lets require all publications to include a braille copy, all musical artists to provide a written transcript of ever performance. That would of course be madness... No, not madness. Instead, it would be a good way to bring art to

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Brown
Chris Wilson wrote: A private company should be able to do whatever the hell they like. Suit is without merit and frivolous. What's next, suing vehicle manufacturers for not providing a braille manual? I'm all for accesability, but there is no reason it should be mandated, and lack of is in

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread russ - maxdesign
Which idea of accessability should be imposed? Yours? Mine? There are clearly defined ideas of accessibility for most countries - such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ Or Section 508 in the case of America: http://www.section508.gov/ In

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Harris
Julie Romanowski wrote: I don't know how many of you are familiar with Michelle Malkin. She posted about the Target lawsuit today, and although she is an intelligent woman, she doesn't have a clue when it comes to web accessibility. Malkin doesn't have much of a clue, full stop. She is an

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Brown
If you are going to argue for standards and accesability, follow your own advice first. Captain table layout over here. You don't even have alt tags on your images. Hypocritical aren't ya? Taking bets as to how long before Goodwin's law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law kicks in. I

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Mark Harris
Andrew Boyd wrote: My suggestion is that rather than cars it should have something to do with cats saying Can I haz agsessibillitee? :) I'm in ur CMS, changing ur links *** List Guidelines:

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
bigeasyweb.co.uk ? There is no reason why an accessible site should cause blindness. On 10/3/07, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, October 3, 2007 11:18 pm, Chris Wilson wrote: I think my point is being missed entirely. I completely support standards and accesability...

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
No, not madness. Instead, it would be a good way to bring art to audiences that might not otherwise know it. Yes, but once you start applying that logic inside legislated rules of presentation and usage (which is the issue here, or will be), a site can no longer be the art the artist desires.

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson Sent: 03 October 2007 23:01 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Better yet, since not everyone can see, lets require all publications to include a braille copy, all musical artists to provide a written transcript

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Better yet, since not everyone can see, lets require all publications to include a braille copy Copyrighted publications in the US are copied to Braille for the most part (with copyright holder's permission) by the Library of Congress. I want to visit the summit of mount everest... I suppose

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Julie Romanowski
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Harris Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 5:47 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Julie Romanowski wrote: I don't know how many of you are familiar with Michelle Malkin. She posted about

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Stuart Foulstone
On Wed, October 3, 2007 11:18 pm, Chris Wilson wrote: I think my point is being missed entirely. I completely support standards and accesability... This is patently untrue. You have no concept of accessibility and the standards and why they exist. Should target improve their site? Yes.

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
As it happens, a Braille version of a publication is one of the least useful things you can do. In the UK only 2% of registered blind people read Braille. How many web users are disabled to the point of using screen readers (anyone using it by choice not by necessity doesn't count, that's their

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2007-10-03 Thread russ - maxdesign
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Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
Oh, this mailing list has been stagnant for quite some time, needs a good argument if you ask me. :) *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Ian Chamberlain
. Seems plain dumb to me. - Original Message - From: Mark Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:47 PM Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Julie Romanowski wrote: I don't know how many of you are familiar

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
A private company should be able to do whatever the hell they like. Suit is without merit and frivolous. What's next, suing vehicle manufacturers for not providing a braille manual? I'm all for accesability, but there is no reason it should be mandated, and lack of is in no was

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
Those are all well and good, but utterly useless in a global marketplace. Should I be under your countries guidelines? Mine? What if I'm international? All of them? What if country As guidelines are incompatible with country Bs... Or should legislation hinge on guidelines proposed, created, and

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Stuart Foulstone
http://26bits.com/ An accessible site shouldn't make everyone think they've gone blind. On Wed, October 3, 2007 11:56 pm, Chris Wilson wrote: bigeasyweb.co.uk ? There is no reason why an accessible site should cause blindness. On 10/3/07, Stuart Foulstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Julie Romanowski
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Chamberlain Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 6:18 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard I must be having a stupid attack as I can't find anywhere on the site where I can register

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Joseph Taylor
: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Or do you think that your right to 'do what the hell you like' outweighs other people's right to be treated equally? Be treated equally? They have to CHOOSE to visit the site. So, because they want (want need)to do something, others should

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
Subject: RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard I think you'll find the people of Tibet didn't build Mount Everest and weren't even able to influence its design. Target chose to design their site the way they did, and a professional designer would have known that they were

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Breton Slivka
These are some of the worst analogies I've ever seen. The target website is not a work of art, it's not a mountain, it's not a car, it's not a drive up ATM, it's not a building. Not to mention the slippery slopes, like Well if they force Target to fix their website, next they'll be forcing it on

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Williams
Perhaps the most amazing thing in all of this is TargetĀ¹s willingness to continue this fight into court. Aside from all the stunningly bad publicity of a major company standing up to fight a group of seemingly defenseless blind people, and the ridiculously poor example they set for all

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard I must be having a stupid attack as I can't find anywhere on the site where I can register and then comment. As for the left / right - Accessibility/ Freedom agrument (it doesn't deserve to be called a debate) it leaves me

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Wilson
Speaking of ' logical fallacy' On 10/3/07, Breton Slivka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are some of the worst analogies I've ever seen. The target website is not a work of art, it's not a mountain, it's not a car, it's not a drive up ATM, it's not a building. Not to mention the slippery

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Breton Slivka Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2007 10:34 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Target is a business, and they ain't

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Genesis One And One
Chris Wilson wrote: I think my point is being missed entirely. I completely support standards and accesability, but not at this cost. Should target improve their site? Yes. Should the be required to by a court? No. No you're point wasn't missed. I agree with you. In fact my first

RE: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Green
Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard Chris Wilson wrote: I think my point is being missed entirely. I completely support standards and accesability, but not at this cost. Should target improve their site? Yes. Should the be required to by a court? No. No you're point wasn't missed. I

Re: A: [WSG] Target Lawsuit - Please Make Yourself Heard

2007-10-03 Thread Breton Slivka
On 10/4/07, Chris Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking of ' logical fallacy' If you have an argument, make it. Don't assume that just because you think you're clever and right, that everyone else automatically will too. On 10/4/07, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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