Web professionals are not doctors and doctors, in Australia at the very least, would have their licenses revoked if they did exactly what their patients asked them to do.
Web professionals however have no licences and do not deal with life-threatening situations. The fact of the matter is if someone offered me thousands of dollars to implement a table-based layout that worked only on IE6, I'd happily do it (although I would probably still feel a little dirty). If however someone offered me thousands of dollars to produce a best-practice website, I'd feel incredibly guilt-ridden if I implemented a table-based layout that worked only on IE6. People are free to make (their own personal) terrible websites, and I will always defend their right to make terrible websites. If people require my services to make that terrible website of their dreams, I'm happy to go ahead and do it for a fee. People are free to chop their own leg off for no medical reason, and I will defend their right to do so. If however people require a doctor's services to chop their leg off, I think it's a good thing that the law forbids a doctor from doing so. On 1/24/07, Mark Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some of the comments on the AIMIA thread seem to indicate that the authors believe accessibility is solely about validation and testing, and that art is only about pretty pictures. I believe that both views are flawed. Accessibility is/should be a way of life for anyone building websites. I don't care to hear the inevitable "but that's the way the client wants it" - does a doctor give a patient morphine for a burst appendix, because that's what the patient wants, for the pain to go away? No. If you consider yourself a web professional, you have a duty (in my view) to point out to the client that an inaccessible website is the wrong thing to do. That doesn't mean it can't look good - isn't that what web standards are about? Creating pages that work for everybody and still satisfy an aesthetic viewpoint? I'm having trouble with the fact that we are even having this debate on such a list :-( regards Mark Harris ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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