Access all areas

Nothing makes me seethe with anger quite as much as reading something like this on a website:

“This site is best viewed using Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 6, or later versions”

If I’m visiting your website, I’m the customer. So why should I have to go out of my way simply to have the dubious pleasure of using your site? Why should I be forced to use a substandard and irritating browser just because you’re too lazy and/or incompetent to make an accessible website? (I use Firefox for most things, by the way – hardly the most radical and unusual of browsers).

Just as bad, if not worse, is how a surprising amount of sites don’t work properly for Mac users. They seem to work fine, but then as soon as I try to do something slightly more complicated – fill in a form, maybe – the site panics and has a breakdown.

Accessibility needs to become more than just a buzzword.