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From: Guy Hickling
Date: Jul 16, 2015 5:40PM

Is this the correct way to add a comment to a thread? An email to this
address? - if not please let me know how to do it as I can't see any link
for the purpose. My comment is as follows:



Joseph, if I am reading your posts correctly, you are having a problem
persuading your company to add a Skip link because they don't see that WCAG
requires them to do it. So why not fall back on disability discrimination
law? In the US the Americans with Disabilities Act, and in the UK the
Equality Act 2010 (and similar legislation in most countries) prohibit
discrimination. Period. Of any kind.

On that basis, if somone produces a website where sighted users can click
menus easily, and screen reader users can get quick access, but the web
designers effectively say to keyboard users, "Sorry you are going to have
to click every one of these 30+ links on every page of our site you visit.
We could solve the problem easily with a Skip link but we aren't going to
because fundamentally we don't give tuppence for you, we are far more
concerned about our own [WCAG] rules as we perceive them, so go take a
hike", then that's discrimination by anyones standards!

Users could use the above laws to mount a law suit over this, regardless of
what the WCAG says or doesn't say, and the opposition would lose the case.
That should surely move your people!

Regards,
Guy Hickling