RE: Where's Bobby? Are we left with Cynthia?

When I see that statement on a site, I automagically conclude that this
site's developers don't know anything about Accessibility and Usability.
;GROAN!]

 

Amanda Lee
Test Engineer
Milvets Systems Technology, Inc.
Department of Veterans Affairs
Section 508 Accessibility Testing and Training Center
810 Vermont Avenue, NW
Room C10A
Washington, DC 20420
(202) 273-9927
amanda.lee3@va.gov
www.va.gov/accessibility/
 


-----Original Message-----
From: w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-ig-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Julian Voelcker
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 6:41 AM
To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Subject: Re: Where's Bobby? Are we left with Cynthia?



Personally I am glad to see Bobby go.

So often I have been in to see a new client and all they are concerned 
about is making sure they their site adheres to the Bobby 'standard'.  
When you strat to talk to them about it is obvious that they have never 
heard of the W3C or WCAG.

Also, they will show you other similar sites that they like and I 
usually find the sites will have the little Bobby logo, but then when 
you start digging in many cases either only the home page is accessible 
or the site has only passed the automated tests, but failed the manual 
check.

Hopefully with Bobby gone, website owners and developers will start to 
think a bit more deeply about website accessibility and what is 
involved.
-- 
Cheers,

Julian Voelcker
Cirencester, United Kingdom

Received on Friday, 27 January 2006 12:27:26 UTC