Terrence Wood wrote: > Do you have any ideas on how to force government entities to comply? > Personal accountability for stakeholders perhaps? > > I think their advisors/suppliers (e-i-new media ltd and their ilk) > should be held accountable as well - and that's easy to do, make it a > term of the contract for services.
Sometimes this doesn't exactly come off as planned.. As the advisors/suppliers claim one thing prior to sale to the client and don't include it inside the contractual obligations for delivery (the usual 'variations' in contract clauses). Once the project has been delivered and monies invested, they are beyond the point of no return, which leaves web standards / accessibilities experts retrofitting supplied infrastructure. Is this retrofitting a good thing or a bad thing ? :-S -- Lawrence Meckan Absalom Media Mob: (04) 1047 9633 ABN: 49 286 495 792 http://www.absalom.biz ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
