[thelist] Is this a list?

[Ian Anderson]

Amanda Kuek wrote:

> Regarding accessibility, I happen to know that NO ONE who will be
> viewing this site will be using a screen reader or have poorer motor
> skills, etc. 

How on earth can you "know" that two week's from now someone's 
grandma/uncle/boss/colleague is not going to also want to give the 
couple a gift, and that they do not have a relevant disability?

You personally know every single person in the category of personal 
acquaintance, business contact, work colleague and family member, for 
both the bride and groom, and the precise nature of or absence of 
disability for every one? And have advance knowledge of every person 
they are going to meet in the months before the wedding? Horsefeathers.

You "know" no such thing.

Sorry to pick you up on this, but... The current admittedly trivial 
example is not the main issue here; statements like the one you made are 
used every day to justify persistent, continuous, endemic discrimination 
against people with disabilities.

All web sites need to be accessible. Nothing will change until people 
like us stop using self-deluding statements like your assertion, and 
just do the job right in the first place without bitching about the 
extra millisecond's thought it requires.

As I said, sorry for being Mr Cross here, but I work with a lot of 
people with disabilities through our user testing activities, count many 
of them as friends, and I know the effect this kind of carelessness has 
on their lives. Statements like yours really make me angry.


ian



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