RE: UK Businesses Reject Accessible Web Sites

Biggest problem is that as yet ther's no case law in the UK - the two cases brought in July 2003 were settled out of court
 
John

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 Subject: UK Businesses Reject Accessible Web Sites
 
 


 There was an article in The Register today:
 
 <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/23/plcs_hit_back_at_complaints_on_accessibility/>
 
 that is about a committee of major UK companies who have basically said:
 
 1) they believe that providing phone access excuses them from making
    web sites accessible;
 
 2) the cost of fixing all their myriads of inaccessible pages would be
    excessive;
 
 3) if the law wants to force them to make web sites accessible, it must be
    explicit guidelines.
 
 The article wasn't clear as to where on the line between:
 
 - comply with WCAG level X; and
 
 - mechanically verifiable rules,
 
 was meant by explicit guidelines.