> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] > On Behalf Of Andrew Stewart > Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:51 PM > To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > Subject: Re: [WSG] Accessibility does not matter! > > Accessibility does matter, but I do think that many people on this > list do get too close to the "accessibility at all cost" point of view. > > Lets take the example of google finance > http://www.google.com/finance?q=gbpaud > quite a cool site using flash and js to navigate quite a large > amount of data (make sure you expand the slider at the bottom of the > flash graph to change the time scale and see how the list of news > articles on the right changes). How could this site be modified to be > meaningfully controlled by using the keyboard alone? I would be very > interested to hear people's opinions on the following points: > > . is this site accessible? and if not, please give real examples of > saying how it is hard for people with disabilities to use > . how could you make it more accessible without introducing a huge > amount of extra work for the developers and without having an adverse > effect for non-disabled users? > > Whilst I think there are some silly impenetrable sites on the > internet, I don't think web developers should really be that concerned > with accessibility - not because it isn't worth it, but because we > have hardly any power over what the user sees. The real people that > should be concentrating on accessibility are people working on > creating browsers and operating systems because they can really do > something about it.
I'm sorry, but this is a piece of garbage. They are removing "outline" on real links, but they leave it on elements that don't trigger any behavior via keyboard input. If they ignore such basics I don't expect the rest of the page to be much "better". -- Regards, Thierry | www.tjkdesign.com ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
