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Tailslide Posts: 6116 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	Govt. Sites fail the disabled (BBC) - 11/29/2005 12:50:21 Interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4478702.stm _____________________________ "My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it" Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Blood, Sweat & Rust - A Land Rover restoration project


jaybee Posts: 14175 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Govt. Sites fail the disabled (BBC) - 11/29/2005 12:57:37 You're surprised? Do as I say, not as I do. Actually the Local Gov't place I used to work is trying to sort out their web site. They have been for some considerable time as far as I can tell but they guy who is doing it is having major probs getting his head round the whole thing. Well I offered! _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to Tailslide)


spitfire Posts: 424 Joined: 8/6/2005 Status: offline	RE: Govt. Sites fail the disabled (BBC) - 11/29/2005 13:40:48 Well the report instigators are doing their bit. As of a moment ago: http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/ timed out http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/index.htm unavailable due to essential server maintenance (whatever happened to week-end maintenance - double time chaps you know) http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp Thank you Tony, we knew we could rely on you. But wait, what is actually lurking behind that magnificent front door of yours? Also a touch of a:focus and valid xhtml on the accessibility page would have been heartening. Oh the irony, nay hypocrisy, nay shame of it. And this seems to have been the only completed agenda item to have come out of the UK's 6 months presidency of the EU. (in reply to jaybee)


womble Posts: 5597 Joined: 3/14/2005 From: Living on the edge Status: offline	RE: Govt. Sites fail the disabled (BBC) - 11/29/2005 14:40:46 quote: Actually the Local Gov't place I used to work is trying to sort out their web site. They have been for some considerable time as far as I can tell but they guy who is doing it is having major probs getting his head round the whole thing /works for one where the top IT guy thinks scrolling text is kinda cool...but they do really want the site to be accessible! _____________________________ ~~ "A cruel god ain't no god at all" ~~ (in reply to jaybee)


Nicole Posts: 2843 Joined: 9/15/2004 From: Nambucca / Kempsey, Australia Status: offline	RE: Govt. Sites fail the disabled (BBC) - 11/29/2005 14:54:33 Why have they given these departments until 2010 to make their sites accessible? Could it be because all the web designers who know how to do it are too busy fixing other poorly designed sites up until then? Could it be thet it takes government departments 4 years to think of something and then do it? Meanwhile those who can't use the site or aspects of it suffer for another 4+ years. How long has accessibility been law in the UK? Haven't the designers who've worked on these sites since that time told these governments about accessibility since then? Or haven't these sites been touched since then? _____________________________ (in reply to womble)


jaybee Posts: 14175 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: Govt. Sites fail the disabled (BBC) - 11/29/2005 15:10:28 Most of the designers work in house. Until last year, I'll bet a pund to a penny none of them had heard of the accessibility laws. Even though it's been law in the UK for several years, nobody started shouting about it until recently. So, you now have departments with large complex sites and a web designer, who, is actually by trade a Cobol programmer who happened to express a minor interest in the Internet. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to Nicole)


caz Posts: 3547 Joined: 10/10/2001 From: Somewhere south of Chester, UK Status: offline	RE: Govt. Sites fail the disabled (BBC) - 11/29/2005 19:55:56 quote: Why have they given these departments until 2010 to make their sites accessible? Because a new government ( or poor old Gordon ) will have the problem to deal with after the next general election. Nothing to do with code. _____________________________ Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will dance, or more on your keyboard. Cheshire cat. www.doracat.co.uk I remember when it took less than 4hrs to fly across the Atlantic. (in reply to Nicole)


Donkey Posts: 3892 Joined: 11/13/2001 From: Blackfield United Kingdom Status: offline	RE: Govt. Sites fail the disabled (BBC) - 11/30/2005 7:09:17 quote: ORIGINAL: Tailslide Interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4478702.stm You have to laugh at the poor old BBC's quaint stereotype image used to illustrate "disabled people" with that article. Two men sat in wheelchairs, what do they think; accessibility involves putting a ramp at the front of every web site? _____________________________ I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. Samuel Clemens (in reply to Tailslide)