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ADA Doesn't Apply to Web
djmoore writes "A federal judge has ruled that the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) does not apply to the Web. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz dismissed with prejudice a suit demanding that Southwest Airlines make its website more accessible to the blind, saying that the suit would create new rights for the disabled without setting appropriate standards. Judge Seitz also rejected plaintiffs' claim that the Web is a 'place of exhibition, display, and a sales establishment,' one of the twelve categories covered by the ADA, on the grounds that the law only covers physical places." Our original article has more details.
You're talking about your woman, I wish to God, man, that you could see mine
You're talking about your woman, I wish to God that you could see mine
Every time the little girl start to loving, she bring eyesight to the blind
Lord, her daddy must been a millionaire, 'cause I can tell by the way she walk
Her daddy must been a millionaire, because I can tell by the way she walk
Every time she start to loving, the deaf and dumb begin to talk
I remember one Friday morning, we was lying down across the bed
Man in the next room a-dying, stopped dying and lift up his head, and said,
"Lord, ain't she pretty, and the whole state know she fine!"
Every time she start to loving, she bring eyesight to the blind
(Spoken: All right and all right, now. Lay it on me, lay it on me, lay it on me
Oh lordy, what a woman, what a woman!)
Yes, I declare she's pretty and the whole state knows she's fine
Man, I declare she's pretty, God knows I declare she's fine
Every time she starts to loving, whoo, she brings eyesight to the blind
(I've got to get out of here, now, let's go, let's go, let's go now)
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We Apprentice Developers and Designers
actually i was reffering to my name in cs, which i stole from www.santosministries.com no one doowops like the san man
-gc-Santos owns all
If God had a grudge, what would it be
And would you run in zig zags
If you were faced with Him in all His weaponry
What would you ask if you had just one question
Yeah, yeah, God is irate
Yeah, yeah, God is mad
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What if God sniped one of us
Pumping gas like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
If God had a gun, what would it look like
And would you want to die
If dieing meant that you would have to believe
In things like Vengeance and in Santa and the Elves
And all the Reindeer and...
Yeah, yeah, God is irate
Yeah, yeah, God is mad
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What if God sniped one of us
Pumping gas like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
Tryin' to make His way home
Back up to Heaven all alone
Sniper's callin' on the phone
'Cept his number comes up as unknown
Yeah, yeah, God is irate
Yeah, yeah, God is mad
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
What if God sniped one of us
Pumping gas like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home
Just tryin' to make his way home
Like a laid off dotcom drone
Back up to Heaven all alone
Just tryin' to make his way home
Sniper's callin' on the phone
'Cept his number comes up as unknown
I have images and javascript disabled and of course flash is absolute garbage. The 'WWW' was built around this thing called http which stands for 'hyper TEXT transfer protocol', not IMAGE, not SCRIPT and certainly not FLASH.
There is this markup language that we use for the web called html, that stands for 'hyper TEXT markup language'.
If a page is written in valid x/html, blind people will have no problem accessing it. If designers cannot write valid markup - they have no place charging for their services. Would you pay somebody to fit a door that would only open for 90% of your customers?
The worst offenders are corporate sites, simple minds (senior management) being easily amused by flashing blinking and irritating fluff. Images, sound, javascript and flash are supplimental and most (yes there are exceptions!) sites should be FULLY functional without them. What possible excuse can there be for not_being_able_to book airline tickets using a text-only browser.
If a site uses javascript, then I have to strip the url from the source. Nine times out of ten there was no reason to use javascript in the first place. Usually I just don't bother because if a site needs anything other than good 'ole html - it doesn't need me.