Posted by Travis Newbury on 11/18/56 11:17

Mark Parnell wrote:
> Absolutely. See my post from earlier. My point though is that those
> sites are the minority on the web. Most sites *do* need to be accessible
> to everyone.

Oh I completely agree with you. You can find a million times where I
say that most sites, especially if they depend on their website for
revenue, should be accessible to as many people as possible. But what I
have a problem with is "need to be". I don't believe the web should be
regulated so a site "has" to be accessible, or usable. Yes, if I am
selling widgets it only make sense to have my site accessible, and
usable by as many as possible. But if I as a retailer find that my
sales go up if I use fancy javascript or flash menus, and cookies or
[enter your own favorite accessibility or usability issue here]. Then I
feel it is the right of the web site owner to do as they please, with
total disregard for any sales they may be turning away because of
accessibility or usability issues.

I am completely against any form of regulation on the web. And forcing
a site to be accessible or usable to all would be a regulation. Yes it
might be dumb for a site to take that route, and in most cases it
probably is dumb. But I would rather have sites learn from their
stupidity or g out of business because of it than to regulate what they
can or can not do.

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