OK< speaking because I am paraplegic, a piece of plywood would do just fine
to get someone up a step, now if you are in a building that just has a small
lip, I do not use a ramp when I go to my mother's house, it's called pop a
wheelie and get your Arz in the door. Now those that jump and run for a
In the US, there already has been a few lawsuits against big name
corporations, I believe Southwest Airlines and Holiday Inn both
settled. The current one is Target
http://www.jimthatcher.com/law-target.htm.
I feel, maybe incorrectly, that current law suits at least in the US
are brought agains
On 21 Aug 2008, at 17:56, Jon Warner wrote:
If I hosted a party, of course I would do my best to accommodate
everyone's needs but to receive a court summons several days later
because i had not installed a wheelchair ramp, for example, is
surely wrong.
The wheelchair ramp analogy, whilst
Hi all,
Just recently registered but am intrigued by this conversation.
I try to keep my sites as clean as possible, utiliising descriptions for
innocuous links and alt attributes for images. So generally, I don't go
'out of my way' to accommodate less abled site visitors (I used to
provide t
Hi,
The WCAG guidelines state:
[Priority 1]
A Web content developer must satisfy this checkpoint. Otherwise, one
or more groups will find it impossible to access information in the
document. Satisfying this checkpoint is a basic requirement for some
groups to be able to use Web documents.
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Hi Tee
Like most things in the law, there's no clear-cut answer to that.
Like the DDA in the UK (as I understand it), it's up to an individual to
make a complaint that they have been discriminated by on the basis of their
disability. The HREOC guidelines tend to suggest that if you've built your
