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Date:      Tue, 6 Nov 2001 05:14:53 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: NatWest? no thanks
Message-ID:  <005201c166c5$06164dc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <15335.54859.676721.164993@guru.mired.org>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:24 AM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; chat@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: RE: NatWest? no thanks
>
>
>
>The thing is, if you design a web site for the WORLD wide web, and not
>for the web balkanized by browser type, your site will be ADA
>compliant. In other words, if the web site is properly designed to
>interoperate with the hundreds - if not thousands - of different
>agents that read web pages, ignoring the ADA completely, then the web
>site will be ADA compliant. No special effort is needed.
>

Then how about instead of mandating ADA compliance, you mandate EITHER
ADA compliance, or W3C compliance?  I'd rather see ADA compliance mandate
a website comply with a public standard than with it's own set of special
rules.


Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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