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Hypocrisy and the Accessible MP
What started out as an attempt to contact my local Member of Parliament (MP) via his web site has expanded somewhat. You can read all about it in my Open letter to Richard Benyon MP but to summarise, having seen the parlous state of his site from an accessibility point of view, I felt it only fair to check out the local competition which, with a couple of exceptions was no better and in one case much worse. Much much worse.
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Blogging Against Disablism…
Being supporter of accessibility, not just because it’s the law in the UK but because I happen to care, I often end up having heated discussions with others in my profession about their complete lack of thought when they develop web sites.
Many times the excuse for not doing it is cost, the bottom line.
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Open Letter to Richard Benyon MP
Dear Mr Benyon,
As an independent web designer with a special interest in Accessibility, I naturally take note of what is going on in the world of web design and development. I was interested to read an article in The Register with reference to MPs awarding themselves £10,000 for their own site.
Today I had occasion to visit your site. I was intending to ask what was being done about the enormous waste of money on the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) web site.
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A layman’s guide to Accessibility
I occasionally help out a computer class. The group is comprised mostly of adults in their 50s who have taken to computing in a big way. They’re all very keen and full of questions.
I volunteered to assist by going to the class once a week to pitch in but they didn’t want to put me out. Very big on self help this group, and that’s great, they learn as they try things but there are the odd occasions when they just can’t figure something out. So I volunteered to do phone support, something they were much more comfortable with asking for and it has to be said that the phone doesn’t ring very often.
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Worldwide Accessibility enforcement?
A successful case of discrimination has been brought against a United States training company by a United Kingdom citizen with a disability.
It seems that US companies can be successfully sued under the UK Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) if they routinely provide goods and/or services to people in the UK, whether they have a physical presence in the UK or not.
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