Hi. I have a strong feeling 2007 is going to be *the* year for Accessibility. Why? Because the EU is now also going to have something similar to US Section 508. I've already seen in real life how this is affecting development goals. In my dayjob, we have a intranet web-based system for all kinds of things that is pretty browser specific. I.e., there is nearly nothing that you can do with the system using lynx. I've been trying to get attention to various problems of this system since the beginning of 2000, and basically always got the reply that there is not enough man power to care for accessibility. Now, January 2007, the development crew bascially asked me to help them test their developments regarding accessibility, and I *know* they only do this because they are afraid of the new EU accessibility laws coming up in 2008.
A double-edged sword. On the one hand, its nice to see imporovements after all, on the other one however, its sad that it takes a LAW to make people realize that small special-needs groups are indeed important. -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- <URL:http://delysid.org/> <URL:http://www.staff.tugraz.at/mlang/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
