Hi there,
you wrote:
"I find it very surprising that, considering the date of the original post, it has had 65 views and this is the first reply!
I then noticed that a lot of the posts under 'Accessibility & Usability' do not enjoy many replies....
I wonder if this means that web site designers / builders / technicians are as complacent about accessibility as many of my customers are."
I'm an Italian webdesigner based in South of Brazil, my name is Paolo Dodet.
Well, my personal opinion on that goes well beyond the realm of webdesigning, standards and accessibility.
Rather is based on the fact that:
1. People (including me and, perhaps, yourself) are hardly convinced that in order to change the world they should change firstly, since it actually is THEM, what makes the world as a reality.
2. Once one is on a routine, as far one's working day-by-day is concerned, it is VERY difficult to change it. If not very PAINFUL indeed.
On top of that you should at least suspect, I'm sure, that NOT all people in this trade are doing it following a real ethic code, I mean a professional one or something of that sort.
Then, while reflecting about all of this, I suddenly understood what I think are the why's and the how's of your question and decided to give my contribution.
And this is that coding for disabled people is not a real business, I mean the vast majority of webtraders haven't yet realized what a potentiality lies behind it, in terms of making money I mean; I wouldn't even like to mention the fact that I personally see it as an absurd, the fact that people are actually banned from sites worldwide because of the arrogance of individual from their own species. That has got no excuse!
What I'm talking about is the narrowminded attitude that some people in our trade are showing to the rest of us. I'm talking here about David Emberton's article you can read at this address:
http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/a...256e5f001a59c5
If you haven't done it yet.
If it weren't tragic, it would be funny!
Even though it sounds ridiculous to most of us, there are, I'm sure, more people out there who would agree with this poor old sod and with his dinosaurs vision of the web, and, albeit the number is decreasing, they are still as many as to make the web no man's land.
Though, what I really believe is that the wheel of life is moving since the biginning of time and no one, I mean, NO ONE would ever be able to stop it, not even, and least of all, David Emberton.
I hope this hasn't bored you
Sincerely
Paolo Dodet
http://www.noblocodenotas.com
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