- BSI Accessibility Standard
- Posted by King Queen on March 15th, 2006
What does everybody think of the new standard? Has anybody read it?
I have to wonder about their commitment to accessibility. Firstly the
BSI website is very inaccessible. They set a small font size and have
not used relative font sizes so people using IE can't resize the font.
Also they are charging £30 even for the downloadable version of the
standard. They clearly don't want people to actually read the thing...
- Posted by Virginner on March 16th, 2006
"King Queen" <doug.paulley.lartsspammers@kingqueen.org.uk> wrote in message
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| What does everybody think of the new standard? Has anybody read it?
|
| I have to wonder about their commitment to accessibility. Firstly the
| BSI website is very inaccessible. They set a small font size and have
| not used relative font sizes so people using IE can't resize the font.
| Also they are charging £30 even for the downloadable version of the
| standard. They clearly don't want people to actually read the thing...
It's a joke. From a joke small-fonted website with 30 - count em - 30
validation errors on the homepage alone ! (Actually, that's one per £ for
the document!)
These people should get their own house in order before they start telling
us how to do it
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...bsi-global.com
D.
- Posted by Andy Mabbett on March 16th, 2006
In message <vk7h12tsu8r8ceffsed065qve479l7fv2m@4ax.com>, King Queen
<doug.paulley.lartsspammers@kingqueen.org.uk> writes
Both issues have been debated a lot, already, not least here:
http://www.accessifyforum.com/forum1/
and my thoughts (which were not welcomed) are a couple of pages into:
http://www.accessifyforum.com/viewto...t=4798&start=0
I really can't believe that such a mess has been made of what should
have been such a good thing.
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- Posted by d on March 16th, 2006
"Virginner" <theDOTbin@virginLOSEIT.net> wrote in message
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What a joke! They've got some real schoolboy errors on there, too. jeeez.
- Posted by Nick Kew on March 16th, 2006
King Queen wrote:
According to a recent story in thereg, they're aware of that and have
contracted someone to fix it.
The contractor's identity and competence are unknown.
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- Posted by King Queen on March 16th, 2006
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:36:34 +0000, Nick Kew
<nick@asgard.webthing.com> wrote:
Many years after the WCAG were published, also after they published
their own standard, which itself was 7 years late... their commitment
to accessibility is clearly great.
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- Posted by on March 16th, 2006
In message <3j2Sf.3127$_W6.2161@newsfe5-win.ntli.net>
"Virginner" <theDOTbin@virginLOSEIT.net> wrote:
www.bsi-global.com
Interesting thread, I have on occasion used the BSI website for BS
colour purposes but the above URL is quite different to the one I use
below:
http://www.bsonline.bsi-global.com/server/index.jsp
I'm not sure why they need two websites?
Steve.
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- Posted by Tony on March 16th, 2006
"King Queen" <doug.paulley.lartsspammers@kingqueen.org.uk> wrote in message
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It's a great pity that this was done through BSI, which is run as a
business, and sets prices to maximise revenue (driven by government who have
no interest in making standards cheap). In fact £30 is cheap compared to
most "proper" standards which it is not.
Don't buy standards from BSI if you can avoid it. I buy international
standards from Australia, much cheaper than the identical thing from the
BSI. I have pointed this out to BSI and their regulatory body and they are
not interested. Lots of people buying standards are not spending their own
money so I expect BSI will be able to keep charging over the market price.
Anyway for British standards (and this PAS which is not actually a standard)
we have no choice but to pay whatever they ask. Sorry about the rant, I have
to buy standards quite often.
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- but please don't use it, reply to the group.
- Posted by Nick Kew on March 16th, 2006
Tony wrote:
IGMC.
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