Re: [Access-activists] Next Set of Tasks for GAI

[Christian Hofstader]

What then can we do to pressure web developers into making their sites 
accessible? Do we take the lawsuit approah like NFB or educate the 
proprietors and just sit  back and wait for change?

cdh: If Macy's didn't allow black people in it would be a national 
outcry; if Amazon doesn't let blinks in we are supposed to be happy as a 
clam while we watch them ignore us?

cdh: Sometimes, one has to throw a brick.

cdh: We will offer them test results from running testing tools on their 
sites, we will afford them the opportunity of having our volunteers work 
with them to remidiate their site, we will give them n months to come 
into compliance, we'll start a petition to hopefully add a little 
pressure, we can put them onto our wall of shame but celebrate 
corrections when they happen and, our last order of biz, we will work 
with the disability law center in Boston to threaten and then take legal 
action.

Peter is correct, though, web accessibility is probably not an issue for 
FSF to campaign so all of this may be mute.

Ideas?

cdh


On 07/01/2010 11:46 AM, T.V. Raman wrote:
> Also, shaming has the effect of the person being shamed becoming
> first defensive, and next just doing the bare minimum to pass a
> checkbox test --- the user usually gets forgotten in the melee
>    

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Happy Hacking,
cdh

Christian Hofstader
Director of Access Technology
FSF/Project GNU
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