An interesting concept accessibility and Google.

Hi Everyone

This subject got me to join the forum. If Google made accessibility an issue and thus ranked sites within the mainstream according to w3c guidelines then web designers world wide will have their work cut out. The cost alone will be prohibative. W3C would argue this, but then they are Dracula in charge of the blood bank in a way.

What I suspect is being mentioned here is a second division ranking system thus effectively segregating the vision impaired members of our community.

Hmm.... this would have the more fanatical members screaming from the highest mountains "Foul"

Both the DDA in the UK and The ADA the other side of the pond does mention if you provide goods and services then those goods and services must be equally accessible to all. This includes the internet. I believe in the States you call it section 508???

It also means a revolution in web design. Gone will be subtle color changes and those nice pastel shades for text against a slightly darker shade background so loved by web builders these days. No use saying for vision impaired people please click on the RED link (seen that on a government site) No rotating gif's (Not a great pity that, but they do confuse many text readers)Choices of color mixtures will have to be thought out. Links can effectively disappear to partialy sighted and the colour blind if the contrast is not sufficient. And TEXT in Arial 9pt or lower.........Oh never. Alt Tags will positively blossom everywhere listing all images in graphic prose.

The major W3C individuals were gradually employed by corporate America to "Advise" and steer W3C policy into cost effective (err...cheap) solutions.

Is making a second Google search engine for Blind people not the same???? An effort of the number one search engine to comply to the ADA???? A sort of Magoogle?????

P.S. I rebelled a while back and now only build sort of inaccessible sites.

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