Thanks, Sam. That was useful. I've been looking for official-looking third-party confitmation of this description. It's now being printed out and will be framed and mounted by end of day. :)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel Richardson Sent: Monday, 31 October 2005 10:09 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Text choices on our own sites When I explain to clients why standards are important I bring up the following list: http://www.geminidevelopment.com.au/html/article_whycomplient.php And explain it to them point by point. Samuel Joseph R. B. Taylor wrote: > As a thought, I wanted to point something out. No one cares about > standards or accessibility but us. Its our job to care. > > As an example, we can view any of the URLs on this list, and see a > common thread - we all like to point out that we use standards and > care about accessibility. > > I've noticed that often, our text almost sounds as though we write it > just in case another group member reads it so we make sure no one > thinks we suck or something. > > You won't find this in any other industry. Our potential clients want > to know that we care, but we can never expect them to care about the > difference between HTML and XHTML and XML, nor should we ever expect > them to care much about CSS vs. tables for layout. > > Our clients don't care as long as it works. They do care that we care > enough to make them the best, most accessible site we can, but they > could care less how. > > Just a thought. > > Joe Taylor > http://sitesbyjoe.com > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
