> Nick Lo > a. because the business wants to filter out minors > required for > legal reasons > b. to plot the site demographic > required for business reasons > c. to help in matching age groups > required for a more productive > use of the site.
IMHO, out of those, only a. is a valid reason for forcing a user to give their age. b is useful to the business, but doesn't give anything to the user trying to sign up. Going down this rationale opens up the floodgate for asking all sorts of questions not directly related to the service the users are trying to sign up to (why do I have to give an indication of my yearly salary if all I want to do is sign up for this newsletter?) c is an added value option, but only if the user wants to go down a personalisation route...some may well be happy with a one-size-fits-all service. Just thoughts, P ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Web Editor / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk ________________________________ Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ________________________________ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
