> -----Original Message----- > From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] > On Behalf Of Jason Grant > Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:40 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! > > @Thierry > I think keyboard accessibility is relatively easy thing to implement > as it tends to follow naturally if one uses even semi-decent semantic > HTML. It's not 'expensive' to implement. I would deem every browser > based solution a total fail if it didn't have keyboard accessibility > supported. > > However I still feel that your examples are far fetched (i.e. > unlikely). Laptop track pad is likely not to be an issue as for > example on my current laptop I have two onboard mice (trackpad and > nipple), but I use an external mouse. Therefore I have 3 mice > altogether. Chances of them all failing are minimal - virtually none. > > Key players (in my experience) tend to dictate their work to their > secretaries and avoid using web tools as much as possible as they tend > to know that's not going to keep them ahead of the game (however much > we would like to think that 'tweeting is essentially for survival > today'). They still prefer verbalising over the phone or such likes > for some reason. I can't actually 'see' this example happening. > > Intranets are usually used within larger organisations. Noone inside > larger organisations is irreplaceable in my experience. So your > example is simply strange to me in this scenario. Essentially if large > organisations were having major issues crop up because of > accessibility, they would do everything in their power to implement > (extra) accessibility for their intranets and web sites. > > That's my experience to be honest.
I guess you solve all the problems by: - requiring one secretary per key player in the company - requiring that everybody has at least 2 pointing devices (with spare batteries as well) - requiring that people give a 2 weeks heads up before getting injured (because even if nobody is irreplaceable, "transition" costs big bucks) Anyway, I think the discussion is getting "silly/absurd"... -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
