I can understand laws on physical access. My uncle is a parapalegic, and had to fight to gain access to public buildings in Jacksonville, Flordai (where he lives). But to carry the law over to the website is just pushing it. It's "less expensive" than building ramps to all of your stores, but why?!? At what point do we stop bowing to political correctness and start telling people "you're BLIND...get a friend to help you with the website."
<!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Morbus Iff Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:28 AM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: Re: [jQuery] Accessibility. Take it Seriously in Your Web Apps. > I completely and totally disagree with the court in this case. At what point > does it stop? Does my personal blog need to be accessible to the blind? What > if I don't care about them? Why should the courts get involved in this No, your personal blog doesn't need to be accessible because it does not have a commercial brick and mortar store. Much like government agencies have to follow accessibility in the real world (and are /required/ to do the same on the Web with US 508), commercial entities have the same basic requirements (wheelchair ramp). These laws extending to their commercial entities on the web is not a huge leap to make. > I just think that we're taking things like this a little too far, IMO. > > <!----------------//------ > andy matthews > web developer > certified advanced coldfusion programmer > ICGLink, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 615.370.1530 x737 > --------------//---------> It's "<!-- ", not "<!----- ...", and signatures should be four lines maximum, delimited by "-- \n", not the monstrosity you're using. -- Morbus Iff ( take your rosaries off my ovaries ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
