On 2/11/06, Paul Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw the "Target Sued" story over on Cnet (http://tinyurl.com/b3u29). What > was amazing to me was the response from a Mr Troy Gaddis in the talkback > section (bottom of above page under the title "This is Absurd". Here's a > highlight: > > "Why do people with disibilites think they DESERVE compensation for such > things. I can definetly understand the actual physical store front for being > able to accomodate for wheelchair entrances and such, but, this is america, > and seeing as how they are not owned by the government, they should have > their website designed any way they like. ANYONE who does web programming or > development (I do) knows that complying with these would be difficult, and > in some situations, impssible. Especially if navigation menu's are written > in JavaScript or Flash..."
Sounds like he has no idea how simple it is to make a website accessible. But that's not the big deal here. If you look at all the comments at Cnet, you'll see that a lot of people agree with Mr. Gaddis... which brings to light a bigger social problem behind the fight for accessible websites; a lot of people, at least in the U.S., just don't care about making accommodations for people with disabilities. There isn't any convincing them otherwise, because you can't make them compassionate; all we can do is hope that the Target lawsuit inspires a precedent for accessibility so that people like Mr. Gaddis have no choice but to consider making websites accessible. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.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 ******************************************************
