> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim > Sent: Wednesday, 24 January 2007 1:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WSG] AIMIA finalists > > No Andreas > > http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html > > Australian gov websites are not tested for accessibility before they > are launched.
I am sure there are lots of people on this list that will disagree with you on that point, as many of us have been employed at some stage to test government websites for accessibility and usability. You might be generalising a bit there. Of course there are still government websites out there that have not been tested and that should be improved. But those are mostly old websites. As far as I know accessibility compliance is a requirement for every new govt website project that is out for tender. > They are not even changed years later when someone points out the > errors. > They stay are they were launched full of the same errors everyday. > Cenbtrelink's website has had the same errors for three years that I > know of. > > Why are you making excuses for shoddy work and pretending that > reviewers caught them on an off day? > Everyday when I change a page I check the validation and > accessibility, > why can't .gov do the same Because the people that modify the content on a govt websites are not website developers. They have a life outside the Internet, don't know how HTML works and probably don't care to know how it works. For a good reason: it's not their job and you can't make it their job. Of course there are people employed by the government whose job it is to make sure the sites are accessible. But there are such huge amounts of changes happening on govt websites every day that you cannot possibly expect them to test their sites every day for accessibility. > You make excuses for those breaching the 1992 Discrimination > Disability > Act Andreas > and that could potentially cause you a lot of trouble > > What dream are you in that believes they are mostly OK. > They are flawed and stay flawed everyday. Get real Andreas. I would appreciate it if you would not talk to me like to an idiot. I do not make excuses and even if I did it would not cause me any trouble. I am not in a dream, I fully understand the amount of work that is involved in running government sites. I appreciate your concern for the accessibility of government sites and I agree with you on the point that inaccessible sites should be made accessible as soon as possible, but maintaining those sites is not as easy as running hereticpress.com. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
