Legal expert joins the forum!

[bwglaw]

Hello Everyone

I would like to introduce myself to everyone. In a nutshell, I am a legal expert on employment law/disability discrimination. I am also Director of Access for our Hands On Access division that advises on all aspects of accessibility in employment and service provision.

Our accessible website is: http://www.handsonaccess.com Have a browse. If I can be of any assistance please do not hesitate to contact me direct by email at jonathan@handsongroup.co.uk

Look forward to chatting/emailing with you all.

Best wishes


Jonathan

[microbe]

How lovely to find someone dealing in accessibility services who has taken the trouble to make their web site accessible!

Good work. Will you be upgrading your main web site as well?

[Ozzy]

Hello Jonathan,
Welcome to the forum. I've seen some of your posts and they are valid input. Glad to see you here.

[bwglaw]

We will start work on our corporate website shortly when our resources allow. Too many so-called accessibility consultancies out there with inaccessible websites! grrr



How lovely to find someone dealing in accessibility services who has taken the trouble to make their web site accessible!

Good work. Will you be upgrading your main web site as well?

[bwglaw]

Ozzy

Thanks for your warm welcome!

Hello Jonathan,
Welcome to the forum. I've seen some of your posts and they are valid input. Glad to see you here.

[microbe]

...Too many so-called accessibility consultancies out there with inaccessible websites! grrr

Absolutely! I presume they all would claim that it would not be "reasonable" to change their sites, when in fact the only hard part about it is making the decision to do it.

[bwglaw]

I actually went over-budget to get the website up and running and importantly, accessible in as much as possible.

Have a look at the 'introductions' forum where I have put a few points across about the DDA and websites.


...Too many so-called accessibility consultancies out there with inaccessible websites! grrr

Absolutely! I presume they all would claim that it would not be "reasonable" to change their sites, when in fact the only hard part about it is making the decision to do it.

[microbe]

I actually went over-budget to get the website up and running and importantly, accessible in as much as possible.

You have done a pretty good job of it, I would say. You run your own web design team, I think? If so, you may be reassured to know that once you have got to grips with and understood the issues entailed in building pages to WAI/W3 compliant standards, it quickly becames second nature and takes little extra time to do. In fact, since it makes cross-browser compatibility and maintenance easier it might even be cheaper, in the long run, to go for the high quality option, instead of continaully trying to pick apart the junk churned out in a WYSIWYG editor.

[Alpha]

Hi Jonathan and a warm albeit belated welcome.

Look forward to seeing your posts, they are most enlightening

[kyber]

To quote Alan, "Hi Jonathan and a warm albeit belated welcome. "....

I always worry a bit when I see someone promote themselves as an expert (it's just not very British old boy) but having seen your postings and looked at your website you sure look like one to me and very welcome you are to these parts. There is a huge amount of disinformation around accessibility legislation and many people taking advantage of ignorance and fear to take money so it is great to know we have someone around who can speak with authority.

Stuart

[bwglaw]

Well said.

For instance, there are too many websites/access consultancies going round scaring businesses/service providers that the law says they must have an accessible website. Rather than going off-topic, let me just say that is is incorrect interpretation of the law.

Oh, I am good at what I do...:)


Jonathan


To quote Alan, "Hi Jonathan and a warm albeit belated welcome. "....

I always worry a bit when I see someone promote themselves as an expert (it's just not very British old boy) but having seen your postings and looked at your website you sure look like one to me and very welcome you are to these parts. There is a huge amount of disinformation around accessibility legislation and many people taking advantage of ignorance and fear to take money so it is great to know we have someone around who can speak with authority.

Stuart

[kyber]

As an aside, I look forward to a future version of the opensource phpBB software used by forum sites such as this that provides better support for accessibility.

The software is still steeped in the old ways and although some people have managed to introduce effective style sheets to simplify some things there is still a long way to go.

Navigation is not that easy if not fully abled and the very very complex tabular layout structure is a challenge for all of the voice coders.

Still, we have to make the best of what we have and I think the recent makeover the team has done has made this site much clearer for all.

Stuart