Re: Disability Discrimination Act

David Quinton wrote:

... Yet the DRC, the Royal National Institute
for the Blind (RNIB) and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf
(RNID), the supposed standard bearers for website accessibility,
continue to fail even the most basic A/AA requirements. ...

Perhaps a little strong, but not without merit.

[quoted from SiteMorse Press Release that I received today]

Ooooh, the irony. Pot, Kettle.
Nah, that's unfair on the charities. None of them even come close to
as disastrous as sitemorse.

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Nick Kew

Nick Kew wrote:

David Quinton wrote:

... Yet the DRC, the Royal National Institute
for the Blind (RNIB) and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf
(RNID), the supposed standard bearers for website accessibility,
continue to fail even the most basic A/AA requirements. ...

Perhaps a little strong, but not without merit.

[quoted from SiteMorse Press Release that I received today]

Ooooh, the irony. Pot, Kettle.
Nah, that's unfair on the charities. None of them even come close to
as disastrous as sitemorse.

It also gets very interesting. The actual report which slates the DRC and
RNIB - the organisation on top is a web design agency called RedAnt - which
registered what looks to be a perfect score. Strangely this is the only web
design agency on the list.

Where it becomes interesting is that RedAnt did the design for the sitemorse
website. They even buy the "Sitemorse" adword on google searches. Looking
through the site it looks to be optimised for automated checking tools.



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Isofarro <spamblock (AT) spamdetector (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

Nick Kew wrote:
David Quinton wrote:

[quoted from SiteMorse Press Release that I received today]

Ooooh, the irony. Pot, Kettle.
Nah, that's unfair on the charities. None of them even come close to
as disastrous as sitemorse.

It also gets very interesting. The actual report which slates the DRC and
RNIB - the organisation on top is a web design agency called RedAnt - which
registered what looks to be a perfect score. Strangely this is the only web
design agency on the list.

Where it becomes interesting is that RedAnt did the design for the sitemorse
website. They even buy the "Sitemorse" adword on google searches. Looking
through the site it looks to be optimised for automated checking tools.

And only automated checking tools.

<div id="contentleft"><div id="menuhide"><span style="display:
none;">|</span><a href="#top" id="hidemenuxyz"
onmouseover="javasript:hideAll();" onfocus="javascript:hideAll()"
title="Back to top"><img
src="http://www.redantdesign.com/_images/shim.gif" alt="this image is
link is purely for layout" width="100%" height="1" /><span
style="display: none;">this text is link is purely for
layout</span></a><span style="display: none;">|</span></div>

"this image is link is purely for layout"

I'm sure that any disabled users who stumble across the site will be
pleased to learn that "this image is link is purely for layout"

Steve

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