UK Disability Discrimination Act
Hi - i am currently developing web-based forms in Oracle 9i and have given the option to resize text and background colours at runtime for low-vision users.
Can anyone confirm for me any legal issues which may arise if i do NOT offer an option to also resize the button text and the Oracle toolbar icons as these are images at the moment and will involve alot of extra coding to do this !!
Will this breach the UK Disability Discrimination Act ???
Can someone shed some light ??
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| Eire wrote: |
| Will this breach the UK Disability Discrimination Act ??? |
all i can say is that it's not as easy as that. there's many areas that are gray, not simply clear cut black and white. it will be for the court to decide (*if* it actually comes to that).
but i'd say no. ideally, you should think about providing something that scales better, but then again 99% of graphics on the web should be affected by this problem as well.
Patrick H. Lauke / webmaster / University of Salford
co-lead: WaSP Accesibility Task Force
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I agree with redux - almost no image can be sensibly/meaningfully resized unless it's vector based, and if all that's required is a pixellated enlargement, all operating systems provide magnification tools which suit this purpose.
Where the images are functional, just like every other functional image, you need alternative text to describe the function...
Kajun
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