Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Another Exception
Another Commonwealth of Virginia web page has launched. Again, it seems to be exempted from the Web Standard, and again - despite its vague claims - it's not accessible. Which begs the question, who's auditing and enforcing the Standard? And why are our tax dollars going for web pages that aren't compliant?
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Who is watching the watcher? Exactly. Why are these web sites not compliant? Daniel Ross or Eric Perkins can you help? Seriously, the people in charge might not get the importance of the web standards, so we need to have people in charge of the web stuff who get it. My agency is also an issue. They spend a million dollars a year on a completely inaccessible and user-unfriendly data system. I am not kidding...the first page says warning do not close...it's ridiculous. I think maybe we have a generation gap and the people in charge need to feel important, not recognzing they might not understand this stuff. Someone told me, successful people always think they are right. I like the VAPerforms site, but I concure with comments posted, the site is not following web standards.
It's possible that this one received an exception because it was a "marketing" type of site. Or it may not technically be under the Executive Branch. I don't know for sure, but it doesn't seem to follow the Standard as stringently as other sites have to.
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