Some of the comments on the AIMIA thread seem to indicate that the
authors believe accessibility is solely about validation and testing,
and that art is only about pretty pictures. I believe that both views
are flawed.
Accessibility is/should be a way of life for anyone building websites. I
don't care to hear the inevitable "but that's the way the client wants
it" - does a doctor give a patient morphine for a burst appendix,
because that's what the patient wants, for the pain to go away? No. If
you consider yourself a web professional, you have a duty (in my view)
to point out to the client that an inaccessible website is the wrong
thing to do.
That doesn't mean it can't look good - isn't that what web standards are
about? Creating pages that work for everybody and still satisfy an
aesthetic viewpoint?
I'm having trouble with the fact that we are even having this debate on
such a list :-(
regards
Mark Harris
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