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This is a mirror, if you think I might of edited the orignal before, you can test ArniesAirsoft.co.uk on the original site at SilkTide

 

This website appears to be in violation of the British Disability Discrimination Act

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:P

I put the mirror up 'cause SilkTide is slow. :)

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However, look how well it did otherwise:

 

A Google search for "ArniesAirsoft" finds this website as #1

 

This website is extremely well linked to (2,550 websites link here)

 

This website is extremely popular (approx #70,802 in the world)

 

Design makes proper use of modern technology (no table-based layout)

 

Marketing= 9.3

Design= 7.5

Accessibillity= 5.8 (WTH? It's easy to access...)

Experience= 8.6

Overall= 7.6

 

Brought down by a dodgy accessibillity test methinks... :mellow:

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As already stated in the IRC channel but repeated here, the website's seemingly run by people with a questionable interested in asserting that most sites are illegal, to say the least.

 

The site's run by a consultancy firm who specialise in advising organisations on how their sites can better meet the needs of those with a disability, in the wake of the DDA (disability discrimination act for those who don't have to deal with it on a regular basis in their work).

 

Now...let's see...Why could they possibly want to portray as many sites as possible as 'illegal' and scaremonger by putting forward stories of people suing sites for not being acessible enough? :huh:

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Hahaha that's a good one.. because I own a website I have to put extra time into making it work for people who have difficulty reading the 'net otherwise I'm breaking the law :)

 

That's like saying that because this site is mainly blue it discriminates against people that like red and those who are colourblind to all tones of blue. :D

 

The best bit of their site is:

How we can help

Silktide are experts at developing websites and web applications.

Contact us if you'd like to discuss how we can help redevelop your website professionally.

 

Are Marlowe mentioned, the chappies that run that site would love it if you paid them lots of dosh to make you what they would consider a perfect (and legal) site. Just a tad biased methinks.

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To be fair there are people out there with disabilities that read websites (I know of at least two people in wheelchairs that use this site myself), but I think it's a bit much to brand any website 'illegal' because it doesn't bend over backwards for everyone on the planet. Bear in mind when that online evaluation thing says "disabilities" I take it to mean people with impared vision of some kind. It's very hard to make an alternative version of a site that's mainly text for someone that has difficulty reading, that's just the way things are sadly.

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Hehe, the whole thing don't make sense. If the website means people with impared vision, then, I bet 99% of the websites out there are illegal. Hey, we may just shut down the whole internet all together. ;) If they mean people in wheelchairs, then Arnie just proved them wrong. ;) Besides, the website is just making a guess since they said, "This website is probably unlawful in Britain from the 1st October 2004." And I'm sure that website itself is breaking some laws too. ;)

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from SilkTide site:

 

The Disabilities Discrimination Act makes most British websites unlawful from the 1st October 2004. The Act makes it "unlawful for a service provider to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service which it provides to members of the public", specifically mentioning websites.

 

Indeed, this is silly!

 

This was covered well by Microsoft years ago in their developer stuff; at one time it appeared that if ones software was not accessible enough the maker could be liable. Accessiblity here means for folks that can't see, speech synthesis software reads them the website out loud, for folks who have a hard time with regular keyboards, they have special ones -- and so on. The thinking is along the lines of the laws regarding wheelchair ramps or parking spots, you have to provide for the disabled. In windows, you can see the accessibility options under Start menu / Program Files / accessories / Accessibility.

 

On the web, I think the responsiblity should lie with the manufacturers of screen readers and keyboard products, and perhaps with browser makers (Microsoft already has you covered) -- but certainly there should be no special action required by one individual website like Arnies.

 

-WMH

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