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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: April 13, 2003 Joe 'accessibility' Clark interview. (madeforall.com) -- "Any kind of judgement or settlement that requires accessibility will be resented, and the company involved might provide only the most minimal and perfunctory compliance."
Reader Comments...
Much more balanced than the average accessibility advocacy. In particular Joe Clark prioritises needs - (1) visual disabilities; (2) motor disabilities; (poor 3rd) hearing disabilities; (possibly never) cognitive disabilities. And Joe's Accessiblog is a useful resource - as he says, "Virtually all online accessibility resources are glorified rehashes of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Accessibility Initiative guidelines, which are opaque, very poorly organized, daunting, and in many cases unrealistic", so he links only to material he actually considers useful. But Joe does not address the fundamental question - why should web sites be required to subsidise a social programme when providers of other products and services are not (see for example Digital radio 'shuns' the blind in Webword 12-April-2003)?
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