Accessibility Champions fail their own tests

"DRC, the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) and the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID), the supposed standard bearers for website accessibility, continue to fail even the most basic A/AA requirements"

http://www.business2www.com/news.html?id=1217547344

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  • I'm not surprised. The current iteration of the X/HTML specification was never really designed for this type of duty. The parts that support it seem like they're retrofitted onto it. X/HTML, in its current form, is still too concerned with presentation.



    I worked on a project at Factiva which required Section 508 compliance. At the time, I protested this since the goal of the project was to get to market ASAP but adding the overhead of 508 compliance, without the proper tools given to us test it, simply padded the development time for no significant reason (at least for "Version 1.0"). In addition, while the leadership emphasized "standards compliance", the individual developers were following thm to varying degrees and there was almost no acknowledgement of 508 except for the token use of the <label/> element.

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