"What percentage of people browsing the web are blind or the like? maybe 1%? Why should I make my site accessable to the 1%? I know this is flame bait, but let me take this a step further.."
Oh, just a little thing called the Americans With Disabilities Act. Face it, if you are blind or deaf or stuck in a wheelchair, your life is going to suck more than the average person's. We don't need selfish people like you to make it any more difficult on them. Here's another quote that makes just as much sense...
"Less than 1% of kids are really smart, so why are we spending all this money on them for magnet programs and charter schools?"
Well, I do believe the average response length has been average out between the latest two interviews to a reasonable average. First, we have Shatner, who replies succintly in few words. And then we have Clark, who spends a lot more time in crafting his answers. It's the difference between night and day.
Kudos to the Slashdot editors for not modifying the XHTML format. It would've insulted Clark, who spent time getting it set up this way, and we probably would've ended up with a lot of mispelled words anyway.
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"What percentage of people browsing the web are blind or the like? maybe 1%? Why should I make my site accessable to the 1%? I know this is flame bait, but let me take this a step further.." Oh, just a little thing called the Americans With Disabilities Act. Face it, if you are blind or deaf or stuck in a wheelchair, your life is going to suck more than the average person's. We don't need selfish people like you to make it any more difficult on them. Here's another quote that makes just as much sense ...
"Less than 1% of kids are really smart, so why are we spending all this money on them for magnet programs and charter schools?"
Well, I do believe the average response length has been average out between the latest two interviews to a reasonable average. First, we have Shatner, who replies succintly in few words. And then we have Clark, who spends a lot more time in crafting his answers. It's the difference between night and day.
Kudos to the Slashdot editors for not modifying the XHTML format. It would've insulted Clark, who spent time getting it set up this way, and we probably would've ended up with a lot of mispelled words anyway.
You know, not everyone on /. is a thirty-something geek. Some of us, like me, are 17-something geeks.