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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: November 07, 2002 Accountability of Accessibility and Usability (Digital Web Magazine) -- "If the people who build Web sites don't hold themselves accountable to a set of basic standards, then someone else, probably the government, will create standards."
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Usability is a commercial consideration, as webword.com often and rightly points out - and webword.com also points out the diminishing utility of usability measures. So usability should be left to the commercial sense of web sites' owners. Accessibility regulation is a scam. Accessibility is a social programme and should be financed by taxes like other social programmes, e.g. mobility for the disabled. Politicans, bureacrats and accessibility lobyists prefer regulation because it allows them to claim credit for doing good without accepting responsibility for the costs. This is an evasion of democratic accountability and is also bad economic management. Posted by: philip chalmers on November 12, 2002 10:25 AM
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