Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter!

[Andrew Stewart]

My point about OS/browsers is that they can easily adjust the colours  
displayed to the screen for the whole operating system, which makes  
the whole computer more useable by colour blind users. Which is a much  
better solution than spending hours removing reds/greens etc from your  
site because it can be adjusted for specific users and will work with  
every website/application.

But to go back to the main concrete point of my email - is google  
finance accessible? - and if it isn't please explain how. Whilst there  
are no-javascript and no-flash versions of google finance they are  
such a poor imitation of the full site, I don't think they really  
count. Yes they display the same information but not in a usable manner.

Andy

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On 1 Feb 2010, at 10:10, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

On 31/01/2010 22:50, Andrew Stewart wrote:
Whilst I think there are some silly impenetrable sites on the  
internet,
I don't think web developers should really be that concerned with
accessibility - not because it isn't worth it, but because we have
hardly any power over what the user sees. The real people that  
should be
concentrating on accessibility are people working on creating  
browsers
and operating systems because they can really do something about it.

Garbage in, garbage out. If you don't structure your content  
properly, add necessary hooks, and generally show basic awareness of  
what the problems are and circumvent them, there is no magical pixie- 
dust-powered technology in the browser or OS that can "accessify"  
your content.

And, for the last time, can we drop this whole "accessibility = non- 
JavaScript solution according to WCAG 1" slant? WCAG 2 has been out  
for over a year now, and that's the yardstick we use. And yes, WCAG  
2 allows for scripting, or any other accessibility-supported  
technologies. But that still means that these technologies need to  
be used in a responsible and correct way...because that's the "power  
over what the user sees".

P
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