RE: [ cf-dev ] Website accessibility in the UK

[Damian Watson]

Richard, it’s a question of regulating commercial and public organisations not sites like your football site, something of that scale is more a case of common sense. That’s what the law is really concerned about.   However IMHO programming with accessibility and standards in mind in the first place makes for better, cleaner websites- life is easier for you as a developer if you get into the habit. A personal bugbear as someone else mentioned is indiscriminate flash use. Why do it? To go with the owner’s Toni & Guy hairstyle? It ain’t good design- neither is inaccessible programming!   -----Original Message----- From: Lovelock, Richard J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2004 15:31 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Website accessibility in the UK   yes I agree with you completely Duncan - I realise it isn't just blindness - I was just using that as an example   to be honest, I have never come across anything to do with dyslexia and colour schemes in any of the work i have been involved in, so I can't comment on this - although I find it hard to conceive that corporations with corporate colour schemes would give this great consideration!? (although maybe completely wrong here)   your point about if something happened to one of my players at some point still fits for the point I am raising - which is the fact that  perhaps it should still be up to the person delivering the content. If one of my players became blind or deaf, or one of my players told me that a family member couldn't use the site etc then accessibility would certainly be more important to me and, given that it is my site, I would make the decision to do something about it but I don't think it should be forced on me by law nor do I think it should be for every web site on the Internet.   Obviously one can not determine one's viewing audience completely, that is one of the beauties of the Internet and I still agree for services that would be used by the less abled, accessibility should be important. I am making the point that I don't think necessarily appropriate to force it upon every web developer/site by law because I don't think that is appropriate.   Some websites, including parts related to large organisations, are purely for information purposes - just as adverts/information on billboards and posters in streets, trains, buses etc - yet there is no legislation to say all of these posters must also speak out loud or have braille etc