"J.D. Abolins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 16 Nov 1999
16:13:08 -0500:
>While I favor accessibility in Web design, I am leery of laws
>specifying the accessibility. Here are some of the reasons for
>this leeriness:
> ...
I agree with your general leeriness regarding laws. As a member
of the ISO committee on "Accessibility" (ISO = International
Standards Organization), I have seen several extreme positions of
people wanting to force developers to add support for e.g.
braille devices directly into all existing software - which would
be a huge programming overhead for all developers! I certainly
would not want any of those requirements to find entry into laws.
In all the discussions on accessibility, however, I found that
there is a uniform agreement that the "Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines" of the W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/)
constitute a good compromise that is fair to all parties.
So, as long as any legal accessibility requirements are limited
to the "Priority Level 1" checkpoints of the "Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines", I am in support of making them
obligatory. They are easy to satisfy and constitute only those
aspects which, when violated, will make it impossible for one or
more groups to access information in the document at all (see
section 4 of the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines").
- Wolfgang Redtenbacher
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