Hi Micky You need to show good faith effort to make your site accessible. Target was warned 6 months prior to the initial filing that they had significant problems and suggestions were given to fix them. The Target site did not make it difficult to use, it made it impossible for a blind person to purchase and get online-only discounts. Those are the two issues, are you making a good faith effort and are you providing services to everyone regardless of ability.
If your newspaper can show that they've made an honest effort to fix accessibility issues, they should be safe. Those basic steps would include adding alternate text to images and making sure your only navigational elements are not hidden behind javascript, flash, and/or image based without alt attributes. If your paper is still suffering from these elements, it's your duty as a professional web developer to make the adjustments. It will also provide your paper with better search engine results. Ted http://www.last-child.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Micky Hulse ... I work for a/the local newspaper company and it would be hell to try and make everything accessible... so many different departments doing different things to the site - not to mention the old-school programmers that could care less about accessibility. Also, all of the third-party scripts we have going would make any type "standards upgrade" nearly impossible. I would hate to own an e-commerce company that was in the same boat as above... If that ruling passes, I would like to see some sort of grandfather clause, or at least some sort of grace period. ... Am I missing the point here? Cheers, Micky ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
