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ahofle:

--- Quote from: tommy on October 05, 2007, 10:54:49 am ---What ever happen to the days where you could run your business how ever the hell you saw fit?

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I don't understand why this is so confusing.
IT'S AGAINST THE LAW!!!!! 
If you think the law is dumb, write your congress person and tell them to exclude blind accessible websites from the ADA.

psik0tik:
We understand that it's against the law. What tommy is saying is that it's become to uptight.

tommy:
This is not about it being against the law, it's about money. Someone in this blind persons family is pushing this issue for them.

If i had a site that does not have blind assisted software i would not have to deal with any of this because i have no money, only people with money will be sued if we let this go on.

ahofle:
I guess my point is that the motives of whomever started the lawsuit are really irrelevant.  I'm sure this whole case will make website accessibility a bigger priority to all but the dumbest corporations and governments.  We've had an ADA project on the back burner for years now where I work, and this lawsuit will almost definitely make it an immediate priority.  So the end result of all this will be good for the blind, even if the instigators are just in it for the money.

And FWIW, I agree that frivolous lawsuits are bringing this country down.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: JamIt on October 05, 2007, 10:16:17 am ---The air force was interested in linking to one of our web apps and we had to do some tweaking to become Section 508 compliant (an accessibilty guideline created by the government).  Just an FYI, this website http://webxact.watchfire.com/ can help verify your site for compliance.
--JamIt


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Hey that is a cool link.

I ran it on the target website and it did come up with 15 errors (with 331 instances) and 44 warnings (with 298) instances. So of course it could be better, but on such a complex website it doesn't seem excessive to me.

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