Comments on: Target, accessibility and opinions

By: kultura

kultura — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:31:11 +0000

I support! You should help different people and particularly tym weaker than us. Let's show as our hearts great are!!

By: kultura

kultura — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:29:04 +0000

I support! You should help different people and particularly tym weaker than us. Let's show as our hearts great are!!

By: patrick h. lauke

patrick h. lauke — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:09:58 +0000

i'm glad that the mods finally locked the sitepoint thread...i was getting very tired of trying to hit the idiots there with a clue-by-four.

By: Daniel Chesterton

Daniel Chesterton — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:53:23 +0000

I can’t believe some of the comments on the Sitepoint forums.
“If they where blind then why would they be on the computer?”
“I still dont get it. How is an ATL-text going to be usfull so someone that cant see it? This is liking sueing McDonalds cas there hot chocolate is too hot! They will never win…”
This is coming from a so called web designer, i can’t believe the ignorance. Hopefully this case will open people’s eyes and start making more people create accessible, usable and web standards based websites.

By: Jorge Pinon

Jorge Pinon — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:41:21 +0000

Coming from the print side, I’ve been designing for the web now for only a year or so, but am trying to be as standards-based, usability- and accessibility-minded as I can (thanks for that direction Paul!). I’m also teaching web design at a college and championing those things as best I can.
Reading some of the comments at sitepoint made me a little ashamed of being a “web designer”, but it goes to show how even our supposedly young, hip and intelligent industry is not immune to ignorance.
I’m with you on this, that it’s a simple decision from ROI and PR standpoints. But maybe Social Darwinism, in this case, may work to get the less enlightened designers out and pave the way for accessibility. For the good of our clients and their disabled customers alike.