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Accessability shouldn't be a law
Accessability is an issue which has moved centre stage among the politically correct in recent years and following on from the battles against sexism, homophobia, and other forms of deliberate discrimination. But I think there's now a danger of them going too far in the bullying search for tiny aspects of life which are felt to discriminate against those who are physically challenged in one way or another. Putting aside the truism that there are very few who are perfect, and we all have to live with difficulties and disadvantages whether those are height, weight, natural talent or IQ related. The more obvious disabilities are the ones which get all the attention, and this is leading to some of the disabled thinking they can bully the rest of us with outrageously impractical demands - some buildings can easily have wheelchair access retrofitted, but for other, older buildings this is impossible. Are these buildings to be abandoned or demolished just because one disabled activist in a wheelchair wished to exercise their right to reach the top floor unaided? Now it has spread to the internet, with everyone with a website expected to comply with some ludicrous dreamed up set of criteria which mean they have to be viewable on every device so far invented and those to be invented, including mobile phones and satnavs, and on every disabled reading device there is. One is expected, as a webmaster/mistress, to test your every design change in case it doesn't quite display properly on everything, just in case someone who is registered blind and therefore excused working for a living, might wish to glance at your site while idly surfing. Ignoring even the possibly non-PC suggestion that registered blind people would normally be expected by the rest of us to not be able to see the monitor let alone my website, I just think it's up to me, and you and you, to decide how our websites are designed and executed, and IF we wish to make them so that they are viewable by anyone, then fine and dandy, but if we can't be arsed, then that should be fine also. My advice to anyone who feels that any of my sites aren't up to their standard of acceptable PC web design, please use the back button, or click away on any of the excellent links I provide. If you aren't satisfied with a site, click away, it's what I do when a site offends my design sensitivities. Perhaps that's my disability, I just can't stand bad design, makes me physically sick. What I don't do is try to force the web owner to change it. That would be arrogant and bullying. It's not an issue of individual rights but of choice.
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