Please compare like with like.....
Target and your local grocery store are not a valid comparison.
target were approached, had the issue politely explained, were shown
suggestions as to how it could be fixed, were given both financial
and legislative reasons to do so and decided to say no.
"I don' wwanna stop usin' slaves coz they's cheaper to manage than
cattle and they work in my financial favour.
My farm, my business, my decision, so get off my land!
So take your northern ways back to New York with ya!"
...hmmmm.
The legislature is supposed to be a check on business poractices for
the benefit of the populace in general.
On Oct 04, 2007, at 02:00, Andreas Boehmer [Addictive Media] wrote:
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Target is a business, and they ain't in the business of
making art.
We are talking about a business that, despite one of the comments on
that blog, HAS made a concious decision to exclude a portion of the
populace from using their website. I know this because I've seen the
reasoning before. "Who cares about blind people? they're a small part
of the population anyway. Let's just make the whole thing flash."
Yes, they are a business. They are trying to make money. Like all
of us. All
of their decisions were conscious and based on the premise to make
money:
use flash for marketing purposes. Save money by getting in a crappy
web
development company. Save money by not targeting a select group of
people.
So what? Are you blaming them for running a business? We all have
to make
these kind of decisions: how do we save money, who are the customer
groups
we are trying to address... If you don't make those decisions you
are a
crappy business person and your business won't exist for very long.
Whether their decisions were right or wrong in our eyes is not the
point.
They have got the right to make those decisions because they are a
private
company.
Would anybody go and sue the local grocery store for having an
inaccessible
website? No. Because nobody would expect them to spend much time or
money or
effort into building a website that works. So where do you draw the
line? If
a company earns millions of dollars then they should suddenly have
to be
liable for making their websites accessible? But if the company
only earns a
few thousands of dollars then it's all fine?
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