MSN, browsers, Web Standards Project

>The Web Standards Project (www.webstandards.org) has this campaign 
>to put something on your web site telling people using "broken 
>browsers" to upgrade to something more standards-compliant.

*and then present all your content anyway*. MSN and Salt Lake 
Olympics *refuse* to show you content if you use unapproved browsers. 
Using an @import command in your stylesheet, you can even hide the 
advice to choose a better browser from those selfsame browsers.

>Should someone using a "broken" assistive technology program which 
>doesn't follow the standards closely enough be denied access?

You can't do a browser sniff for a screen reader. One only has a 
problem (on Windows, at least) if your screen reader sits on top of 
Netscape 4. But I don't see why disabled Netscape 4 users should be 
given any kind of preferential treatment over nondisabled; the 
browser remains just as broken.
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         Joe Clark | joeclark@joeclark.org | <http://joeclark.org/access/>
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Received on Monday, 29 October 2001 00:10:01 UTC