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Re: Blatant abuse of the term 'accessibility'

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From: Geof Collis
Date: Apr 1, 2010 6:36AM

Hi Steve

I'm not sure what can be done but up here in Ontario with the new law
governing website accessibility expected soon people who have no
business calling themselves web accessibility professionals/experts
are popping up like dandelions.

I expect a lot of Companies are going to be taken to the cleaners.

cheers

Geof


At 05:10 AM 4/1/2010, you wrote:
>I've seen a worrying increase of websites blatantly abusing the term
>'accesibility' in the current climate in which we try so hard to encourage.
>An example of what I am talking about is using accessibility as a vehicle to
>validate an almost worser evil such as keyword-stuffing SEO tactics (perhaps
>due to genuine misunderstanding, or perhaps not) like the following example
>(observe the heading 'Links for Accessibility' that introduces the so-called
>accessibility links, below the visually-obvious main content):
>http://alturl.com/8xzu
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>
>
>What do other people think can be done to stop people doing this? And more
>importantly, encourage them and their clients to consider this distasteful
>practice. It is not accepted in the real-world, so why should we accept it
>online.
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