Posted by Mark Parnell on 06/09/06 00:14

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, Ed Mulroy
<dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket> declared in alt.html:

> 1-I am not in Australia.

Your loss. ;-)

Even if your country does not currently have law requiring that your
site be accessible, that doesn't mean it won't in the future.

> 2-Photographs are viewable only by those who can see. No court or
> legislator can change that fact be they in Australia or not.

No one is suggesting that you have to achieve the impossible. But the
site itself still should be accessible - even if they can't see the
photos, they can still read the text.

> 3-I doubt that Australian (or any of the "numerous countries" you
> allude to)

http://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/

> law mandates that I am guilty of discrimination if I fail to
> support someone's PDA.

Most are primarily focused on people with disabilities, though I see no
reason it should not extend to people using a PDA. But if your site is
accessible to screen readers and other assistive devices it will be
accessible on a PDA anyway, so it's not like PDAs require any additional
effort.

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Mark Parnell
My Usenet is improved; yours could be too:
http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

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