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Re: Can you believe this? part 2!

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From: Gareth Dart
Date: Nov 20, 2006 7:30AM

It's probably worthwhile pointing out to them that as owners of a non-DDA compliant website, they are opening themselves to possible legal action. The village council or whoever is holding the purse strings ought to care about that, even if the developer doesn't. Is there not also a village rag to whom a sternly worded letter may be addressed? Disability discrimination is _NOT_ irrelevant.

The reply is also just plain rude, btw.

In the meantime, there's always IE Tab -> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

G

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Oops... using webmail... forgot and used tab which sent the dratted thing!

Quick recap: local village site has scrolling text that used <marquee>
tag. I wrote (nicely I thought) to point out that it didnt work in non-IE
browsers and that the scrolling was also against accessibility guidelines.
Now on with the story...

I received the following reply from the web master:
"Whilst what you say is correct we will not change the site to work with
Firefox. Irrespective of W3 standards the de facto standard for web
design is Internet explorer and Firefox Opera etc are such a tiny minority
as to be irrelevant."

Aaaargh! I'm speechless. And cross! Not only does he dismiss Firefox
and other non-IE users; not only does he dismiss the W3C: he completely
*ignored* the accessibility issue! (He did concede another accessibility
point that his "click here" links needed changing... ).

OK: rant over. Thanks for listening.

Penny





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