Re: [jQuery] Accessibility. Take it Seriously in Your Web Apps.

Yehuda Katz Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:51:33 -0700

Or we could say, "As a society, we will insist that people who are physically disabled be afforded a minimal level of access to large, commercial or public areas." Disabled people are human beings too, and if we can do something to ensure that those who cannot do the things we take for granted can do them too, we'll be better off in the long run.

Some of our greatest geniuses have been disabled, and we should not risk losing another genius because they cannot operate at a minimal level in the new information age.

-- Yehuda

On 9/11/06, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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."



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> 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.
>
> 

It's "<!-- ", not "<!----- ...", and signatures should be four lines
maximum, delimited by "-- \n", not the monstrosity you're using.

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