- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:49:27 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Denise wrote: > Yes of course Charles. You are absolutely correct. The legal implications for > private companies (and education providers) failing to provide accessible Web Private companies and education providers are rather different cases, except to the extent that the latter is acting in its former role. Although advertising can be informative, almost all modern advertising is about influencing emotions and is rare to find significant useful content. Commercial web sites tend to lean very heavily to being advertising vehicles. On the other hand, educational web sites (and government ones) are generally about conveying information (although public web sites for educational businesses may fall into the advertising category). I think the main bars to accessibility on educational and government sites is the designers ego, and their desire to got to more lucrative jobs doing commercial web sites. A secondary factor is the large amount of material educating people on how to create advertising sites, compared with the limited material on conveying real information.
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