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Re: Can you believe this? part 2!

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From: Gareth Dart
Date: Nov 20, 2006 7:50AM

There is indeed - The Disability Discrimination Act. Unfortunately, there has not yet been a major test case based on the provisions of the Act, and the Act itself is somewhat hazy on the specifics.

G

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]On Behalf Of Michael R.
Burks
Sent: Monday 20 November 2006 14:29
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Can you believe this? part 2!


Sounds a lot link "We do not need any ramps, no people in wheel chairs come
in here" or "We do not need any TTY's no deaf people call us"...

Is there not a law in the UK about this?

Mike Burks



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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Austin, Darrel
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 9:17 AM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Can you believe this? part 2!

> 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!

Yep. Web development is a lot like software development. The industry is
rife with incompetant developers. Sadly, a lot of customers tolerate it.

You might want to mention to him that if his own site stats show an
'insignificant' amount of Firefox users, it's quite possible it's due to
the fact that their inability to care about it has driven all the
Firefox users away.

Web stats, unfortunately, are used often as self-fulfilling
prophecies...only 5% of our visitors use FF? Well, let's not
bother.--Oh, your site doesn't work in Firefox? I guess I won't bother
visiting.--Oh! Now our site only has 2% FF users...see! We were right!

-Darrel








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