RE: [WSG] Accessibility Trustmark

2006-11-02 Thread Christopher Lee
MAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:51 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] Accessibility Trustmark This looks little better to me than an advertising piece for another (poor quality?) commercial service. I have no experience of this company, but SiteMorse are probably

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Trustmark

2006-10-31 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Tim wrote: Why not just use the W3C icons or the Cynthia icon tested at the page bottom? I'm not paying someone who knows less than me to rate my site. Even the RNIB See it Right logo costs money. Why get sucked into a lot of commercial greed? The W3C or Cynthia badges only attest that a pa

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Trustmark

2006-10-31 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
Emma Sax wrote: Agreed. If a large company like O2 hadn't decided to buy into it, it would have been easier to fob off. Didn't Segala CEO Paul Walsh actually work for O2 at some point, before setting up on his own? At the very least, he had some prior connection with them, but my memory fai

RE: [WSG] Accessibility Trustmark

2006-10-31 Thread Emma Sax
> Bugger off Segala. These trustmarks really annoy me, > Just more commerical organisations seeking to make money. Agreed. If a large company like O2 hadn't decided to buy into it, it would have been easier to fob off. I know I could do a better job in testing but little old me doesn't have as m

Re: [WSG] Accessibility Trustmark

2006-10-31 Thread Tim
Bugger off Segala. These trustmarks really annoy me, Just more commerical organisations seeking to make money. Why not just use the W3C icons or the Cynthia icon tested at the page bottom? I'm not paying someone who knows less than me to rate my site. Even the RNIB See it Right logo costs mon

RE: [WSG] Accessibility Trustmark

2006-10-31 Thread michael.brockington
This looks little better to me than an advertising piece for another (poor quality?) commercial service. I have no experience of this company, but SiteMorse are probably the leaders in this field, and have courted plenty of controversy along the way. Any testing is better than no testing, bu