who's responsible - time to move away from denial
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Accountability for accessibility issues - top brands, marketers, website mangers etc shouldn't be to blame, surely they are not going out of their way to not meet the standards?
If the provider (agency and or CMS vendor) tells you you are fully accessible, and the CMS provider says you cant publish anything that will contravene the guidelines, but there are failures (even at a basic level like ALT TEXT) who should be the one that is held to task?
The need to employ both manual testing and automated tools to ensure accessibility, usability and compliance is fully recognized and never disputed.
I'm looking at this from the point of view - not what is used / how the testing and monitoring is actioned, more if you are told its all been done - but it clearly hasn't (and im not talking technical detail, more basic items like no ALT TEXT on the accessibility statement page....).
I think there needs to be a change in mind set, and accountability - you will see what i mean with this example;
http://blog.sitemorse.com/...
There are clear failures (issues for over a year) but the company, agency and the specialist testers all remain in a state of denial.
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| Sitemorse Blog wrote: |
| Again is anyone telling the CIO/CEO that everything is fine with the site and that they are compliant with all the legal requirements placed on organisations with a website ? I'm sure no one is saying "we're fine apart from these 2 crucial links on our Home Page". |
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| <p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma', 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><font color="#000000">Again is anyone telling the CIO/CEO that everything is fine with the site and that they are compliant with all the legal requirements placed on organisations with a website ?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I suspect they are because I'm sure no one is saying "we're fine apart from these 2 crucial links on our Home Page".</font></span></p> |
Things like this have reduced Sitemorse's credibility in the past. If your own website was perfect, being so bullish about problems with other websites would at least be excusable. As it stands, that is far from the case.
As another measure of code quality:
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</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html> |
Your punctuation seems a bit weird, too. There is no space before a question mark in English. Modern punctuation uses a single space after full stops. Also, typographically correct quotation marks and apostrophes have not been used. Those are the straight ASCII ones. I thought Movable Type did good typography by default...maybe there's a setting you can tweak?
(Of course, this forum uses phpBB which is far from producing good code. I've built demos with better code but the staff here haven't applied those suggestions.)
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My CV type thing and my Life of Ben (Blog). Nigel Peck's Accessify Forum Requirements.
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