From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 1 18:35:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD09937B406 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 40201 invoked by uid 100); 2 Nov 2001 02:35:26 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15330.1646.946959.174967@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:35:26 -0600 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NatWest? no thanks In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011101190545.03ed6330@localhost> References: <20011101164226.B47017@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <4.3.2.7.2.20011101190545.03ed6330@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass types: > At 06:14 PM 11/1/2001, Jamie Jones wrote: > >Anyway, as you no doubt know, Microsoft recently blocked many browsers > >from its MSN portal.. There was a big fuss made, and Microsoft backed > >down, > No, it actually did NOT back down. With some alternative browsers, such > as Opera, you can access some of the pages but not others. And with > a text-based browser, you still can't get in at all. This is a violation > of the Americans with Disabilities Act. That isn't clear for two reasons. #1) It has as yet to be established that the ADA applies to commercial web sites. It *does* apply to all web sites run with public funds. As I noted elsewhere, the argument hinges on whether or not a web site is a "public place of business" as defined by the act. #2) MSIE has a whole slew of accessibility options. If those are sufficient to allow all disabled people to access the web site, then they satisfy the act. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message