Consider your own independence. Now consider needing to rely on others for many tasks in your life. Why would someone with disabilities be any less desirous of independence than yourself? Sure, it's a bit of a hassle from a developer's point of view when you have so much else already stacked on your plate. Maybe screen reader companies who want an edge on the market should work harder at working with the mess of a web that is already out there. And maybe we can all chip in a bit to make the web a more useful place for everyone. Frankly, solid semantic web design is a goal for me regardless of the accessibility issue. Where it gets tricky of course is graceful degredation of all the javascript work we're so fond of on this list. But I've heard enough other people also express that as a goal that I would expect we'd be batting pretty well there too.
-Stephen Andy Matthews wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
