Accessiblity legal case and legal terms for websites
http://www.contenu.nu/socog.html
An interesting quote and part that I liked was as follows:
Type-in URLs
The HREOC sided with Maguire that typing in sport-specific URLs did not constitute favourable (“equal”) treatment. As Maguire plainly put it, “that is not the way that people use Web pages.” The Commission agreed: “[T]he proposed alternative is both unorthodox and cumbersome and need not be resorted to by a sighted person.”
It must also be pointed out that the URLs in question are tongue-twisters. As examples, five sports have very long URLs differing by exactly one character. Can you guess what sport relates to each URL below?
- www.olympics.com/eng/sports/CS/home.html
- www.olympics.com/eng/sports/CF/home.html
- www.olympics.com/eng/sports/CM/home.html
- www.olympics.com/eng/sports/CR/home.html
- www.olympics.com/eng/sports/CT/home.html
In order, the URLs relate to canoe/kayak slalom, canoe/kayak sprint, mountain biking, road cycling, and track cycling. You can’t assume some kind of acronym system at work: “Canoe/kayak slalom” and “canoe/kayak sprint” share the acronym CKS, but the URLs use CS and CF.
SOCOG, in all seriousness, advanced the manual typing-in of mile-long, hard-to-remember, confusable URLs as an accessibility measure.
The accessiblity laws for websites was the best I could find
posted by Unknown at 2:58 pm
1 Comments:
Great post on Accessibility, Michael. Congrats on SOTT too - which is seriously fantastic work!
Just thought you might be interested to know that HREOC has WWW Accessibility Guidelines and other resources available online @ http://www.humanrights.gov.au/disability_rights/webaccess/index.htm
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