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A British Standard will give business owners and marketing managers new guidance for building and maintaining web content that is accessible to disabled people. A draft version of BS 8878 was released for public comment today. Julie Howell, chair of the cross-industry committee responsible for the draft Standard, said that …

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  1. I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects
    Paris Hilton

    BSI?

    Bloody Stupid Interface?

    These are the people who backed OOKSMELL.

  2. I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects
    Paris Hilton

    BSI?

    [s]Bloody Stupid Interface?[/s]

    Bloody Stupid Iohamster.

  3. Sooty

    how about

    under no circumstances should javascript be required just to click on a link.

    That would be a nice accessibility feature for a lot of sites i use.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    BSI

    Bill's Software Investigated ...Big Secret Investment ... Bill's Software Innovative!

  5. Jacqui

    Given .giv.uk's brown nosing to MS

    How about just saying MSIE5 is the UK standard - otherwise all of those .gov.uk sites will need a "technology revamp" to get rid of the Frontpage tag soup.

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Bleedin Obvious

    Nice of them to document the bleedin obvious.

    @Jacqui - there aren't many Council's that use Frontpage, probably more commonly found in the FE sector more than anything else now.

    http://www.brent.gov.uk/egr.nsf/SCV?ReadForm&View=UPTSupp&Category=Web+Content+Management&Start=1&Count=60

    Paris, cause she recieves no guidance from a higher authority

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