Re: Promoting standards - to Al (access: devices vs. people w/ disabilities) from john.colby@btinternet.com on 2002-07-12 (public-evangelist@w3.org from July 2002)

From: <john.colby@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:38:00 +0100 (BST)
To: public-evangelist@w3.org
Message-ID: <121591.1026463080533.JavaMail.root@127.0.0.1>

The major factor influencing any decision to "use" disability discrimination
legislation to promote web standards is that is the only way that the law
backs you! (if you see what I mean). Invoking regulation is a far more
powerful way of getting people to agree with what you're saying because
it's a sort of gotcha - don't do it and you're in trouble.

There's no such compulsion for adopting Web Standards per se.

Received on Friday, 12 July 2002 04:38:02 UTC