dyefade's Journal: The Disabled Internet?

Just read this article about people having disablities using the internet. WTF?
I'm all up for making things accessible, especially as this usually correlates with good design anyway, and I agree that "The 1995 Disability Discrimination Act" seems like a good idea, but the "GOOD WEBSITE DESIGN CHECKLIST", seems to be out of line.

"Ensure good colour contrast between foreground and background" - why should a web designer!? if they're paying for webspace and want to put weird colour combinations together, that's up to them! usually they'd be ill-advised to, but it's still their choice.
"Avoid movement in pages", "Avoid pop-ups and don't change window without telling the user" - the web has been becoming gradually more dynamic and animated, new technologies (e.g. flash/java/dhtml), are making websites more exciting, but no, not everyone can read them, so we should get rid of them all! just like we should get rid of cars because not everyone can drive them. And hills, because not everyone can climb them.
"Clearly identify the target of each link" - seems like common sense, yes, but i disagree with this too. As an example, the icons on slashdot. They have no text labels, but most of the icons are self explanatory, and if they had text labels, that would change the size and screw up the layout.
"Use the clearest and simplest language possible" - and also The Times have to do this as well because the big words are confusing. And only English is allowed on the internet because other languages are hard to read. For people who don't understand them.

Grrrrr and the BBC are supposed to be responsible!

Just finished watching ER as well... it can be quite dark at times.