> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] > On Behalf Of Jason Grant > Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 4:24 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! > > @Thierry > Why does Google not care about accessibility? Do they believe in > 'Accessibility does not matter!' (rather than with ? at the end). > 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. > > GMail has an HTML only version which works OK, while Google calendar > seems to have no alternative - with JS off the tool is totally > inaccessible.
flash can be very accessible (as Patrick pointed out). And forget about JS off, what's important is that it is accessible *with* JS. See Todd Kloots' YUI presentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=kloots-yuiconf2009-a11y -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
