http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/cman/2006/04/24/web-accessibility-links/ web application development with popular technologies Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:24:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/cman/2006/04/24/web-accessibility-links/#comment-68 Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:17:30 +0000 http://www.melbournechapter.net/wordpress/web-accessibility/cman/2006/04/24/web-accessibility-links/#comment-68 [...] Doing a simple design for a website must meet compliance rules for Accessibility under the Australian Disability act. Failure to do this recently saw a website being successfully sued for failing this compliance, and had to fork out around $50,000 in settlements. (Have a on Web Accessibility Links) Imagine the scenario for doing an ecommerce website and your shopping cart software miscalculated a cost causing a loss of 10% per transaction. Over a year the website operated not realizing that the website is causing a loss to the business. What happens when the company suddenly realizes this and factors this loss to be at $30,000? Where do you think you stand with that company? You may be successfully sued by that company for a loss of business, and quite often that loss of business may be more than you were actually paid. [...] […] Doing a simple design for a website must meet compliance rules for Accessibility under the Australian Disability act. Failure to do this recently saw a website being successfully sued for failing this compliance, and had to fork out around $50,000 in settlements. (Have a on Web Accessibility Links) Imagine the scenario for doing an ecommerce website and your shopping cart software miscalculated a cost causing a loss of 10% per transaction. Over a year the website operated not realizing that the website is causing a loss to the business. What happens when the company suddenly realizes this and factors this loss to be at $30,000? Where do you think you stand with that company? You may be successfully sued by that company for a loss of business, and quite often that loss of business may be more than you were actually paid. […]

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