[Gllug] Argos site

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 31 Jul 2002, Stephen Harker wrote:
>On Wednesday 31 July 2002 12:07, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
>>A blind man in Sydney sued IBM (a founding member of the "Bobby" web
>>accessibility initiative, no less!) and SOCOG for him not being able
>>to use the Sydney Olympics site.  It was an insanely complicated site
>>and they ended up spending millions fixing it.
>Just wondering, but would a blind person be able to sue the movie
>industry for making films that are not accessible to them? Could a
>deaf person sue the music industry for making albums that are not
>accessible to deaf people?

If they were gratuitously inaccessible, yes.

>Not being a bigot, just wondering how a blind person would expect to use a 
>website anyway?

Bad option; via a screen reader under Windoze. Good option; via lynx,
w3m or links with a screen reader or Braille display, or via Emacs-w3
and Emacsspeak.

You should not need to be told this. The existence of text browsers is
not exactly a secret.

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