<rant> the big problem is - as the DRC report released this week mentions - that accessible web sites need to make aesthetic/layout compromises to be entirely accessible (no left nav bars being the most obvious example - at least until all screen reader progs develop to the point wher they can handle 'em), and most web developers (current company excluded, of course ;-) still seem obsessed with Flash. I've even come across sites which are entirely built as _one Flash movie_ (not even a separate movie for each page) - which is about as _in_accessible as it gets...
Come October, when section 3 of the DDA comes into effect, I reckon Flash is gonna be dead in the water - or at least retreat to where it should be, used occasionally for interactive graphics. </rant>
This has been a major issue for a long time. The problem is that until it's properly regulated, it won't get anywhere. I have a friend with a disabled kid, and he is really hot on accessibility. It's just that no-one has the time or energy to sort websites out to make them accessible. It's not a "big" enough concern for anyone.
My biggest issue is that people just go on and on about accessibility... why don't some people just write a better text browser or screen reader, or start pushing some meta-tags like <screen_reader section="navigation" /> or something so that screen readers can learn this stuff. imho it's FAR more attractive for corporations big and small to do that than to make everything "accessible".
It does make me wonder sometimes how the big CMS companies don't start pushing accessibility as a big thing!
ie Our CMS has automagically built in accessibility...
It just seems silly not to!
Oh... it's because they don't care that much about accessibility because they only work with the big boys and 80% of a CMS is the backend, and that's controlled by MS anyway...
Paul
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