Hi,
you took the words out of my mouth Melissa :]
"Web development professionalism should be more than W3C standards and
search engine optimization. I think that promoting ourselves as premium
services should include accessibility compliance.
Isn't it only a matter of time before accessibility as a specialisation
sky rockets in demand? Am I just giving away good idea's again?
I'll admit right up that I'm not prepared and fully trained up on
accessibility issues, but I think the issue is more important than my
professional insecurities and I'll keep it on my must do list. Won't
all happen over night - but it will happen eventually. And that is a
good thing."
couldnt have said it better myself...
Im quite sure accessibility as a specification will come in to play...
I want to make sure im ready :)
Kind Regards,
Jamie Cooper
Quoting Melissa Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello... only just weighing into the chat and I haven't read all of the
posts, but I'm a little disturbed that you haven't been responded to
Kepler... so I'll step up and continue a moral debate. (or is that not
ok, because standards aren't about morals)
This stuff on a commercial level usually comes down to project budgets
and I think only legal presidents will force clients to be prepared to
pay higher prices for their websites to ensure that they comply. Isn't
this more work for us and a bigger slice of the project budget pie??
Isn't it an opportunity?
Web development professionalism should be more than W3C standards and
search engine optimization. I think that promoting ourselves as premium
services should include accessibility compliance.
Isn't it only a matter of time before accessibility as a specialisation
sky rockets in demand? Am I just giving away good idea's again?
I'll admit right up that I'm not prepared and fully trained up on
accessibility issues, but I think the issue is more important than my
professional insecurities and I'll keep it on my must do list. Won't
all happen over night - but it will happen eventually. And that is a
good thing.
Certainly the net generation will be more appreciative when their
living longer bodies start to age.
:]
Melissa.
John 'Max' Maxwell wrote:
Kepler Gelotte wrote:
Max aka The Pig Farmer - fighting for the spiral stair case ...
Being a wheelchair user myself, I find your statements to be offensive at a
personal level and misguided at a professional level. I don't
think adding alternate ways of navigating a web site will encroach
on your art. If you feel you can't add the appropriate WCAG
modifications to
your site without stifling your creativity, why not add an
alternate link to
accessible (artistically ugly) pages? Hopefully we learned from
the Jim Crow laws that we can't segregate an
entire segment of the population and call ourselves a "Democratic
Society". Regards,
Kepler Gelotte (one of the 'peasants')
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excellent - there's always one - and thank you for identifying
yourself. You clearly exposed me as an individual who actually is
fighting for spiral staircases and disrespects all forms of
democracy, no no - it wasn't a joke - you're quite justified don't
worry - I can only help that my platform provided you with a
satisfactory position from where to correct me.
Misguided? I'll take my chances there - to be honest - going to war
in Iraq with a 50 year old weapon was misguided, but I survived
that. But offensive? If you can honestly tell me that you as an
individual were offended by my humour then I can only
wholeheartedly apologise as it is something I do not take any
pleasure in and until tonight had managed to avoid.
All of my websites these days are valid, clearly constructed and
encourage access by all members of society using all variations of
hardware and software.
Regards.
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