By Andy McCue
Published: Wednesday 22 September 2004
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Michael Davies
Location
http://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/
Occupation
Web developer
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The Odeon need to fire their website DDA consultants. Their statement "Odeon takes its obligations under the DDA very seriously, and has been working with its IT developers and DDA consultants regarding implementation of compliance and good practice standards to meet the DDA as it comes into force." shows the lack of knowledge in accessibility and legal matters.
The part of the Act covering websites is already in force, and has been since about 1999. The Code of Practice published by the DRC reaffirms websites as being already enforceable under the DDA back to May 2002.
The RNIB settled two cases last year over an inaccessible websites.
Both of these firmly and conclusively point out the blinding obvious, websites are already enforceable under the DDA, and have been enforceable for quite some time.
The Odeon's heavy-handed action against Matthew Somerville, and their continued inaccessibility is disgraceful.
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