Re: RE: Accessibility

"Nick de Voil" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.cms-forum.general
Message-ID <019201c4973e$6f97ea90$05d92c52@D542LL0J>
> The DDA says that you must take all reasonable steps to make your
> service accessible (sorry, I'm paraphrasing).  This would seem to
> preclude the provision of a 'different' (text-only) service for your
> disabled audience - although that could be a matter of interpretation.

Yes. I'd disagree with your interpretation.

The "service" is the resources (information/transactions) provided by the
site, not the particular way in which the user interface presents them. As
long as you give everyone access to the resources, via some appropriate
interface, you've made your service accessible.

Nick de Voil
Director
De Voil Consulting
+44 (0)7811 325879
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