I agree completely with you. With the exception of your API specifics, I
think the same exact way.
The cost of adding accessibility should really be zero. It takes no
extra time or effort if you are designing and coding your websites the
proper, because the methods used for accessibility are also the
standards for basic web design. Also, many of the changes that help make
a website accessible are also very good for things like cross-browser
compatibility and S.E.O.
Christian Snodgrass
Azure Ronin Web Design
Joseph Taylor wrote:
McLaughlin, Gail G wrote:
We always ask the client if they require that the site comply with
accessibility.
Why not say "Would you like a shitty website, or a good quality
website"? Well-made shouldn't be an extra feature...
In fact, since its clearly cheaper and easier to make a crappy
website, why don't you just mock up pages in Illustrator, save the
whole thing as an image with no alt attribute, and use that instead of
a real page? Thats real cheap and easy. Heck, there are people that
actually do that! Most people will never know!
I cannot tell anyone how to run their own business, or design a
website for that matter, but I want to state for the record that
anyone on this list should be doing there very best to make the best
sites they can. Adding alt attributes to images and doing other minor
things that make pages more adaptable to devices and more
user-friendly is the right thing to do.
Blind people? Accessibility is not about blind people.
As a designer/developer I don't really care about blind people. I
don't consider them (gasp!).
I do consider PDAs, cellphones, text-only browsers, screenreaders and
google.
I take the responsibility upon myself to deliver a product that works
on all of them. I also make no guarantees. I don't mention
accessibility or other browsers, etc to the client since the aren't
considered with the computing world beyond their own desktop for the
most part.
Those who do ask get the speech of the year and come away knowing that
it's a major part of my methodology. I do it for my own satisfaction.
Each site is a little better than the last and comes a little closer
to being the perfectly marked-up document that it should be to
properly function of all devices.
Does this take longer or cost more? I'll say not. My PHP coding goes
10 times faster since I use the codeigniter framework to handle the
typical BS, my javascript goes 10 time faster since I use jQuery to
handle the typical BS, and I have written enough sites that I have a
pretty good process going, the result being a better site put together
more quickly.
For some developers it will take longer and cost more. I know people
that shudder to think of making a navigation bar by hand, forever
stuck to dreamweaver's horribly bloated javascript rollover menu. For
them its simply not an option.
Joseph R. B. Taylor
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