- From: Paul Davis <paul@ten-20.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:48:14 -0000
- To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Morning Kynn, Mia culpa, I take your point and have slept on it. I apologise to this group, if my tirade yesterday was perceived to be having a pop at a rival, that was not the case but I can see how it could have been seen as such. Mia maxima culpa. And yes I do at times feel frustrated, but the fact remains I am still seriously miffed not at the actual sponsorship, good luck to them. But at a major player in the communication field, and one of this countries largest companies not only to be endorsing something that is not correct but then screaming it through the media. They should know better, it is the ' look what grand people we are helping all these poor disabled people' attitude that got me going. I find it insulting to say the least and I am not disabled. If they really wanted to help did they really need the press releases that went along with that help. I would have hoped that a multi billion pound organization would have been bigger internally than that. It was total and callous exploitation of disabled people to get perceived good PR. Frankly if British Telecom wanted good press then perhaps the money would have been better spent getting their own website accessible. For a communication company in a monopoly situation (they own the entire telephone line network in the UK) not to be able to communicate with millions of disabled people I find staggering. But to then be endorsing accessibility through the press when their own site isn't accessible I find really hard to swallow. And whilst I find there is still some humble pie left, I also say sorry to Cast, bobby is a brilliant tool, I use it nearly every day, I suppose they are a victim of their own success at times. Still miffed, and not bowed, but saying a sincere sorry to this group as a whole. This is my last posting on the matter. gnrrrr Paul Davis www.ten-20.com The portal website for disabled people and associated professionals.
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