RE: UK Businesses Reject Accessible Web Sites

Biggest problem is that as yet ther's no case law in the UK - the two cases brought in July 2003 were settled out of court
 
John

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	Subject: UK Businesses Reject Accessible Web Sites
	
	


	There was an article in The Register today:
	
	<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/23/plcs_hit_back_at_complaints_on_accessibility/>
	
	that is about a committee of major UK companies who have basically said:
	
	1) they believe that providing phone access excuses them from making
	   web sites accessible;
	
	2) the cost of fixing all their myriads of inaccessible pages would be
	   excessive;
	
	3) if the law wants to force them to make web sites accessible, it must be
	   explicit guidelines.
	
	The article wasn't clear as to where on the line between:
	
	- comply with WCAG level X; and
	
	- mechanically verifiable rules,
	
	was meant by explicit guidelines.