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    Paul Ranson

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    The law is typically vague and unclear. 'Information Service' is undefined, but I'd think it might be 'library' rather than 'personal web site'.

    It's obviously sensible to make your web site 'accessible', but I don't think you're breaking the law except in pretty specific circumstances. And if your design means that it cannot be made accessible, or the nature of your service (perhaps you're a visual porn merchant?) is incompatible with a certain disability then I think you can justify discrimination. And the law is already in place, nothing is changing in October 2004 (AFAICT) regarding web site accessibility.

    More interestingly do we get to sue foreign web sites for being inaccessible?

    Paul
     
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    that gives you the satisfaction, but the browsers are far more forgiving, and will quite happily render <p>paragraph<p>paragraph with </p>'s missing etc. etc. etc.
    you can even skip something like:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
    etc etc
    and jump straight into text.
     
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    oh, i was just trying to think of an example of "compulsory" end tags that browsers will forgive.
    then there's the whole html vs xhtml thing:
    In HTML the <img> tag has no end tag.
    In XHTML the <img> tag must be properly closed.
     
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    It can get confusing, I have done no XML or anything like yet so the only standards I am concerned about are CSS and HTML 4.0. There are of course lots of design standards which validators don't check, but most of these are common sense.

    As for foreign websites you could sue them if it was hosted in the EU, or the organisation was EU based. However if it was else where I don't think you could.

    The worst sites I have seen are usualy bands. Look at coldplay's website. There will be loads of people who cannot use this site.

    www.coldplay.com

    I once came across an american website aimed at disabled people, it broke all the most basic rules, it used frames, no ALT tags, no accesskeys it was quite disgusting really.
     
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