I got my website analised and i was told its in violation of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines which the British Disability Discrimination Act is based upon. Does anyone know if this is the case for this site? and what the guidelines actually state?.
I'm afraid that I have experience with neither. But, this page might assist you in finding and "curing" the problems in your site:
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
As to a validator... no clue, sorry. Frankly, the UK has the WCAG as law, when almost no one else enforces it. So not everyone is familiar with it. You might have to make a theme in specific for this law.
This isn't intentional on the part of the MyBB staff for certain, but there are hundreds of thousands of sites that could be worse than yours. Why they singled you out, I don't know. Are you a UK resident/domain-holder?
No they didnt single me out i just ran it through a site checker and this is what came up.
I have no doubt that its not intentional
i just wanted to bring the issue forward so the team here were aware of it (if indeed they arent already and have included this).
That's a stupid law that the UK enforces. Ignore it as no one cares and no one will do anything about it. It would cost much more to take someone to court then they'd get out of it.
Tikitiki Wrote:That's a stupid law that the UK enforces. Ignore it as no one cares and no one will do anything about it. It would cost much more to take someone to court then they'd get out of it.
I can't find any references to any UK law that does that. Can anyone find me a link? It does seem rather stupid to try and force people to make websites that are "perfect" for every user.
DrPoodle Wrote:Tikitiki Wrote:That's a stupid law that the UK enforces. Ignore it as no one cares and no one will do anything about it. It would cost much more to take someone to court then they'd get out of it.
I can't find any references to any UK law that does that. Can anyone find me a link? It does seem rather stupid to try and force people to make websites that are "perfect" for every user.
I was just going off what the validator said.
I've never really agreed with the wording of the warning to be honest. The warning about possibly breaking the law is shown whenever validation of a page fails, regardless of whether or not the failure was caused by something which genuinely does breach the law.
A standard installation of MyBB should validate correctly on the
W3C Validator to the best of my knowledge but if you add additional themes/plugins or modify the existing templates it is likely that the pages will change.
Fixing the issues thrown up by the validator should stop the warning from appearing.
I thought it was a bit ridiculous...
If it were true then most large websites (Google, Yahoo etc) are breaking the law!
