- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:24:21 -0500 (EST)
- To: Kelly Ford <kford@teleport.com>
- cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
http://www.angusrobertson.com.au - I buy books, and would buy them from an Australian company to ship them to my australian home. But their site was inaccessible when I tried it, so I don't buy from them. Charles On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Kelly Ford wrote: David, I'd be curious to know why you are so against legal action to compell improved web accessibility? While I certainly don't think it is the first approach, in many cases the force of law is the best method to compel action. I've watched the web grow more and more inaccessible as time goes by. This probably isn't a popular opinion but all the guidelines, standards and such seem to have little impact on the web's development. Show me an e-commerce site that's been hurt by inaccessibility. Obviously these sorts of sites will be hard to find because who knows how many transactions have been lost when someone found a transaction too difficult to complete. But I don't see too many e-commerce vendors running around saying, "Gee, if I incorporate accessibility I'll make more money." -- Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 (0) 409 134 136 W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI 21 Mitchell Street, Footscray, VIC 3011, Australia
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