...and AA compliance is really not difficult, unless you ignore accessibility until after you've finished designing a site.

So what you're saying is that compliance will be difficult for any site that was designed before the new rules (which will come out in a year or two) go into effect.

You can't ignore what doesn't currently exist, you can only ignore it after it exists.

If any of the sites I run falls under these requirements, they will probably have to come down, since I don't have time to go back and redo everything that has already been done. That means that people who can't currently get to my content still won't be able to, and those who can will lose it. That sounds like a lose-lose situation to me.

The problem it the programes the read websites AKA JAWS plane out suck. The amount of extra code needed is a pain. Get Jaws to work and we are fine

...but I don't think most businesses (or most people, generally) have anything to object to here. What's likely to make people anxious about changes to the ADA is uncertainty over what those changes will involve.

As a web developer, my main concern is just knowing what I'll have to do or do differently. It would be helpful if articles like this -- or their summaries -- provided links to the proposed guidelines. Personally, I'd prefer to get a head start on this so that my clients and I don't end up rushing to implement changes as the last moment.

That it takes a LOOOOOOOOOT more than a few alt tags, standard compliant markup and Flash that can be screen scraped to be ADA compliant. Its a freagin nightmare, and a lot of people who think they are compliant, are not, unless their web site is EXTREMELY simple.

For all practical purpose, its impossible to ACTUALLY be compliant. They're just a bit soft over it...

Please tell me - do we get ANYTHING out of e-voting apart from a time saving between closing the polling stations and declaring the result?

Where I went to vote, anyone who wished had the option of bringing an assistant. I recall doing this for my grandmother when her health was failing. She couldn't see well enough to read the ballot much less fill in a circle. So, I would read the ballot to her, and she would tell me what to mark.

I'm all for throwing money at math and CS (it keeps me employed), but I still think that E-voting is unnecessary. Just use paper. With paper, the ballots can be recounted in front of a group of representative for each side whenever there is a dispute. It's simple and crystal clear to the vast majority of voters. The only disadvantage is that it's slow, but so what? Voting is important, we can afford to slow down a little and do it carefully.

Agreed, E-voting is the classic solution in search of a problem.

while eye tracking is amazing when it comes to making very fast gross movements it falls apart when it comes to fine movements

WTF does "cyber 9/11" mean?

It means "an attack carried out using the Internet that is as devastating to the US as the attacks on 9/11," duh.

Are terrorists going to fly a plane into internet tubes and clog them?!

Denial of service attacks exist, yes.