- From: Norman G. DeLisle, Jr. <ndelisle@email.msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 08:48:55 -0400
- To: "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <charlesn@sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au>
- Cc: "WAI" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
The Americans with Disabilities Act and its regulatory apparatus makes accessibility a right for persons with disabilities under certain circumstances. In this case, the "amount" of accessibility that a given site has to provide partly depends on whether the site is government or privately sponsored. Also, a set of definitions for web accessibility and other things similar was recently issued as part of the development of the ADA. In general, government sites have to meet a higher standard of access than private sites; I am no expert, but the overall standard for private sites would be accessibility that is readily achievable. Given the nature of markup languages, it makes some sense that the standard of "readily achieveable" will be pretty high for web sites. However, none of this has been tested yet. Time will tell-but my guess is that the expectations from a legal perspective will be fairly high for sites. Kynn Bartlett writes: > Where do rights come from, and who > makes the decision, "this is a right"? > > Again, no flames please, and bear in mind that we're on the same > side -- I just want to hear the logic behind this statement. > > -- > Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://www.idyllmtn.com/~kynn/ Chief Technologist & Co-Owner, Idyll Mountain Internet; Fullerton, California For your user-defined stylesheet: .GeoBranding { display: none ! important; } Enroll now, for my HTML 4.0 Accessibility Class: http://www.hwg.org/classes/
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