- From: Kelly Ford <kford@teleport.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 05:51:40 -0700
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Full story at: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20000809/tc/olympics_web_site_riddled_with_b lind_spots_1.html Wednesday August 09 08:15 AM EDT Olympics Web site riddled with blind spots By Rachel Lebihan, ZDNet Australia Organizers claim there's no time to make the official Web site of the 2000 Sydney Games accessible to everyone. One man insists that's not good enough. Organizers of the Sydney Olympics fought to prove the Games' official Web site does not discriminate against the vision-impaired during a lengthy examination of the site at a Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission hearing on Tuesday. Complainant Bruce Maguire, who is blind, first made the allegation in June 1999. Some changes have been made to the site (www.olympics.com), which is expected to get 1.4 billion hits, but Maguire maintains that the site remains largely inaccessible.
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