Comments on: Top 5 Most Annoying Accessibility Excuses

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:04:12 +0000

Thanks for commenting ,Bronwen!

I tend to keep the search engine argument in reserve, just in case it distracts from the “real people” argument.

By: Bronwen Reid

Bronwen Reid — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:57:19 +0000

The best argument is always “Google is not sighted. Google likes accessible websites”. And I like to follow up with a demonstration where I open the site in a text-based browser (I tend to use Opera and just turn off images and stylesheets) and I can go “this is how google sees your site” Of course the google argument doesn’t help with idiot excuse number one.

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Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:18:39 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:51:12 +0000

Cheers both!

I generally find plain old lack of understanding easier to deal with than excuses. Ignorance can be dealt with when you explain the added benefits. I find Isolani’s presentation about Legal and General useful as an example of those.

Accessible vs available, well, that’s a problem with our web professional jargon… I try to use as little of that with managerial types as possible!