Please let this be the final word...

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On Jan 31, 2010, at 7:39 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:

On 01/02/2010 00:24, Jason Grant wrote:
@Thierry
Why does Google not care about accessibility? Do they believe in
'Accessibility does not matter!' (rather than with ? at the end).

Even large corporations can be as misguided as you, Jason.

Isn't their behaviour the same as Microsoft's with regards to HTML?
Yes both of those mega-corporations are heavily involved in
'specifying the future HTML standards' in fact Google are 'running'
the HTML5 spec.

And they're also part of the effort for accessibility
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#acknowledgments

Whether they then follow the guidance they themselves have worked on is another matter, as with any large corporation. However, this does not give you a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Hey, http://www.google.co.uk still uses tables (!!!) for layout. Maybe I should stop using CSS altogether then, if they don't either?

I am guessing that Google's GWT Java library is a big reason why their
AJAX tools don't work with JS off, but it's a great example of where
'lack of resources' mean lack of accessibility. By resources I mean:
time, money and skill, as outlined in my article.

For the last time: accessibility != making it work without JavaScript. It does mean that, with JavaScript, it's still accessible and usable (with keyboard, or screenreader, or screen magnifier, etc).

Have we concluded on 'reality of today' now, or do we need to continue
down the 'Alice in Wonderland' route?

Look, let's do it this way: let's agree to disagree. You can go off and feel that you've proven your point, while the rest of us can get on with actually understanding the implications of modern, standards-based, usable and accessible web development.

P
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