On 08/03/2007, at 11:48 PM, Bob Schwartz wrote:
Some meandering responses
First a disclaimer:
This post does not reflect my personal views on web accessibility or
handicapped persons, it is merely a collection of "academic" thoughts
triggered by various posts of the past few days.
How and why did the web get singled out from among all of the other
"publishing" mediums to be "by law" accessible?
Because we are the latest kid on the block most able, more able than
print from my experience of hitting a button to spend on hardcopy.
We can provide options Guttenburg could not dream of, options to show
the same object for different views.
Why aren't book, magazine, and newspaper publishers "required" to
produce an audio or braille version of everything they publish?
The Accepted old media grandfather clause, only applies to new kids.
Why aren't TV broadcasters and movie production companies "required"
to sub-title all of their broadcasts or films, or have an "off screen
reader" describing the scenes?
Again old media exempted from new media rules.
Isn't saying one can't (shouldn't) use, for example, a popup window on
a web site because screen readers have trouble with them, like telling
Hollywood they can't (shouldn't) use certain special effects because
the "off screen reader" would have trouble explaining them to a blind
person?
But f the director who writes a script which misleads 10% of the
audience up a dead end alley with signs saying "toilet this way" that
really lead down ablind alley, has lost a lot of their audience before
Act One Scene One is over. It is surely not right for a Hollywood
director to want to waste investment money making flops that are never
completely seen by a lot of people, the Target website it maybe a
metaphorical comparison to a website flop, like a bad hollywood film.
It could legally cost your backers to make an inaccessible website,
just as the movie director must stick to best practice production rules
of lighting and sound the web director should follow standards which
allows the largest possible audience of humans and bots.
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