Ignorance and inspiration (via adactio)

I have just read this really depressing blog post titled “Ignorance and inspiration“.
I find it really disturbing that despite all the great work that so many people and organisations do in promoting the concept of inclusive internet. That you still get ignorant comments like this, which I really hope are just Digg kids. Although, I know very well its not just smart arse kids who express that sort of view.
Over the past 18 months I have been doing a lot of contract and freelance work and in that time I have had a two interviews which really stick in my mind. In both cases I have spent 10 mins talking about various designs, how the experience I have gleaned from testing and working with users could be easiliy applied to their projects with very little extra effort, only to be told “We don’t do that here”. It is very difficult to put in to words how frustrating it feels when a such minor change to an existing development model (for example; building standards based HTML) is greeted with an expression which thinks you have suggested they build all their web sites in binary.
October 15th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
I should really add the positive links at the foot of the post are superb. i’m just watching through the videos now and really enjoying them.
October 16th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Another great post about the Target Lawsuit
http://accessites.org/site/2007/10/is-the-target-lawsuit-frivolous/
October 16th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
The Access 2.0 view on the matter
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/access20/2007/10/techrunch_readers_off_target_1.shtml