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From: Mark Magennis
Date: May 10, 2005 7:12AM

>like the legendary "Maguire Versus the Commonwealth Games".


The amazing thing is, that was 5 years ago! At the time, many people
thought that this heralded a new age of Web accessibility legislation
and litigation. But since then - virtually nothing.

By the way, it was the Olympic Games.


>> When approached, by email, a spokesperson from the RNIB agreed with
>> my concern about the lack of action against non compliant Websites
>> but said this had been expected. I was surprised!


Maybe people like you and I are too optimistic for reality :-{

Mark

Dr. Mark Magennis
Director of the Centre for Inclusive Technology (CFIT)
National Council for the Blind of Ireland
Whitworth Road, Dublin 9, Republic of Ireland

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