- From: Mike Elledge <elledge@msu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:46:06 -0400
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- CC: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
It does eventually get down to the person doing the work. But I had the impression that there was more of a commitment in the UK to website accessibility than in the U.S., even though overall the level is still very low. Am I mistaken? David Woolley wrote: >> to spend it. In contrast, there is a great deal of interest and support >> for making websites accessible in the university environment, where >> there are designers on staff (sunk cost) and legal, ethical and >> financial reasons to do it. >> > > Actually, I criticised my university's (a UK equivalent of Ivy League) > computer science alumni web site and basically it is created by a > secretary who considers a person in the department who has written > material on good web design as someone she shouldn't be troubling > for time. At least for UK universities, I would say that the marketing > side is distinct from the academic side in the same way that most W3C > members' web sites are broken because they are controlled by marketing, > not by their W3C delegates. > > >
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