Re: HTML Markup Validation: Your thoughts.
Hi again,
Remi, as I said I've no objection to the accessibility thing, I believe it's admirable. The point I'm trying to make is that to achieve this WC3 accreditation it can be done by 'cheating'. All I need to do is ensure there's an Alt tag that's meaningless (and doesn't include the word "image").
But beyond this my original point was that you're a web designer, a client approaches you for a site and you put in a quote twice that of your competitors. The client asks why? You state that all your sites are WC3 compliant, guaranteed. Is the client concerned? Is he going to pay that extra money for your site or less for your competitors. I go out and buy a daily newspaper. It comes with fixed text, no braille or speech synthesiser. Don't you think it's time that these publishers were made to make their publications accessible to all? And at what price to newspaper costs?
Back to websites. There seems to be argument that because you can do something (in this case accessibility) you must do it. My wife suffers from a severe tremor of the limbs and face, so she finds it impossible to use a mouse or keyboard. She could use a keypad similar to the large button telephone she has to use. I could create my Flash sites with speech that says "For contact details" press 1, "for products press 2" etc. but who's going to pay for this extra development costs? The client ... no way.
Last edited by Egg Bramhill; 17 July 2007 at 02:01 AM.
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