Yes I need work as well, but I would have to warn a client in writing
that I would proceed to make a website as specified unless they took
the responsibility under the 1992 Discrimination Act.
The doctor must do what is best practice evidence based medicine, not
what the client wants. Web professionals have no certification, but
they have many contractual legal responsibilities to clients in
contract law and under the 1992 Act. The Olympics corporation was sued
in Maguire v Sydney olympics, but it could have been the web design
company.
I personally believe a professional should have nothing to do with
invalid HTML or inaccessible websites!
In legal circles it would be lacking "due diligence" as the
professional, a client is entitled to rely on your advice, yes I will
make you that crap site, but sign here that I am exempt from supplying
a best practice W3C validated 1992 Act Certified webpage and that I
take no legal responsibility for making such inaccessible webpages!
Show them the option of an accessible site, sell the benefits it has,
increased SEO results, legal compliance, company reputation, etc. etc.
If they still want crap tell them to buy a copy of Dreamweaver.
if your client were later sued under 1992 Act, you could be the
co-respondent and all that money you made and your possessions could be
subject to an action against you. See the Gummerson case in the USA and
Target case by the NFB.
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/USAweb.html#targetstore
Even an uncertified web expert, must comply with contractual
obligations of fitness for purpose, merchantable quality and Disability
Discrimination laws.
Tim
On 24/01/2007, at 4:05 PM, Antonios Sarhanis wrote:
Web professionals are not doctors and doctors, in Australia at the
very least,
would have their licenses revoked if they did exactly what their patien
ts asked them to do.
Web professionals however have no licences and do not deal with
life-threatening situations.
The fact of the matter is if someone offered me thousands of dollars
to implement a table-based layout that worked only on IE6, I'd happily
do it (although I would probably still feel a little dirty).
If however someone offered me thousands of dollars to produce a
best-practice website, I'd feel incredibly guilt-ridden if I
implemented a table-based layout that worked only on IE6.
People are free to make (their own personal) terrible websites, and I w
ill always defend their right to make terrible websites.
If people require my services to make that terrible website of their dr
eams, I'm happy to go ahead and do it for a fee.
People are free to chop their own leg off for no medical reason, and I
will defend their right to do so.
If however people require a doctor's services to chop their leg off, I
think it's a good thing that the law forbids a doctor from doing so.
On 1/24/07, Mark Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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