RE: RE: Accessibility

"Smith D.B." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.cms-forum.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > 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.

True.  But how would the disabled user get to the accessible version in
the first place?  Navigate to it from the inaccessible version?  Which I
think is just about where this thread started...  

Anyway, I make it weekend o'clock.  

Cheers
Dan
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