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Re: Alternate Accessible Versions?

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From: Cheryl D Wise
Date: Feb 7, 2005 8:25AM

Ignorance of the law is not and never has been a valid defense and usually
an attempt to comply when the statutes are shall we say "ambiguous" as they
are in the US is far more of a mitigating factor than completely ignoring
it.

Cheryl D. Wise
Certified Professional Web Developer
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://wiserways.com
Office: 713-353-0139

-----Original Message-----
From: michael.brockington

I am not a lawyer, but I have often heard it said that partially
acknowledging a Law is worse than ignoring it completely; the latter can be
defended as ignorance whereas the former demonstrates awareness.
In other words if you have a set of pages that have 'A' rated accessibility
then you are probably better off legally than making a set of 'AA' rated
pages and then having a set of 'AAA' pages as an alternative.

Hope that explains my opinion this time.
Mike