Re: online accessibility
"Rod Smart" <[email protected]>
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>>> [email protected] 12/10/2005 6:59:48 pm >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:40:00AM +1000 Rick Miles said: > Geoffrey Scott is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says! > <snip> > > > > If you are talking about accessability for disabled people and you want > > to follow some guidelines probably the UK laws and guidelines that > > govern accessability will help you to design a site that covers the > > usage by blind people etc. That's if yu are interested in avoiding any > > problems in the future caused by legislation brought in by the Aus gov. > > > <snip> > I'm looking at this in terms of restriction of access there are some > quidelines regarding the disabled that apply/imply what I'm concerned with > but they don't discuss restriction of access by certifying that website works > with MS IE only. To quote Commonwealth Bank when I asked: <snip> Why don't you give Commonwealth the push and go over to a bank like Bendigo which has a standards-compliant site which works under every common browser? <snip, me? no way> I have been using Commbank-NetBank on Mozilla at work on the Win-XP CAD station and at home on Gentoo linux with zero problems